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PRESIDENT’S PAGE
DOROTHY M. MOORE, MD
MSD President Dorothy M. Moore, MD is an Ophthalmologist who practices at Delaware Eye MD Associates in Wilmington.
2016: A Year of Successes
It is hard to believe that December is here already. The holidays and the new year are rapidly approaching and
with it the end of my year as President of the Medical Society of Delaware. As I write this last president’s page of this very busy year, I have been sitting here pondering the many events that have occurred these last 12 months. This has certainly been one of the busiest, most rewarding years of my professional career. There have been many challenges that MSD has faced these past 12 months and I’m certain there will be many more ahead as we head into 2017. At a recent MSDIS meeting,
I was reminded that each decade we have faced unique challenges and that we always manage to weather the storm.
We face a whole alphabet of issues
as physicians. ACO’s, the ACA, Advocacy, Burnout, Scope Expansion, MOC, MACRA, MIPS, P4P, DIMER, the Opioid crisis — to name a few in the avalanche of change we are buried under. Any one of these issues would be daunting in and of itself but we have to deal with them simultaneously. Your Medical Society, acting through it’s leadership, executive board, council, committees, and staff admirably handle these each day on your behalf. Whether you are an employed physician, a physician in a large or small group
practice, or a dinosaur like me in solo private practice, MSD has something for you. There are many tangible this year was to update you on those Know” each month hopefully reminded you of those things available to you
that are just a phone call or email away. hundreds of calls helping physicians with those little nuisance issues to
the big problems. Help with contract review, what to do when you plan to retire, issues with payors, the list goes on and on.
MSD advocates for you, the physician, and your patients each and every day. community leaders, and hospital leadership. Our legislative team of lobbyists and the Government Affairs Committee are to be commended for the tireless work they do throughout the year as we face more scrutiny
and regulations from those outside sources that would have us alter how we practice medicine. PDAC, the Prescription Drug Action Committee, was formed from a joint effort of MSD and other stakeholders to tackle the growing drug abuse problem during the term of one of our past presidents, Deep Kahlon. He and other members
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