The Surgeon Shortage: Constructive Participation during Health Reform

Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the American College of Surgeons Institute for Health Policy Research, Chapel Hill, NC *Correspondence address: George F Sheldon, MD, FACS, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, 4006 Burnett-Womack, CB# 7050, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7050 Received March 16, 2010; accepted March 16, 2010. Disclosure Information: Nothing to disclose. Presented at the American College of Surgeons 95th Annual Clinical Congress, Chicago, IL, October 2009.