Please be advised that residential households in the U.S. are now eligible for another order of free at-home tests on USPS.com. Here's what you need to know about your order: Each order now includes 8 rapid antigen COVID-19 tests Your order of #8 tests will come in 2 separate packages (4 tests in each package), each with its own tracking number Packages will ship free To place your order, click HERE!

Robert J. Powalski, III, CFP is the Erie County Medical Society's exclusive financial planning advisor.  Mr. Powalski is a Certified Financial Planner who has extensive experience in the finance industry, specifically in providing comprehensive personal finance expertise to medical professionals. 

Bob Powalski grew up the son and grandson of physicians and has focused his practice on offering financial guidance to doctors in both their personal and professional areas.

Visit Praxis Financial's Web Site

• Comprehensive Financial Planning 
• Investment Management
• Retirement Planning Custom Portfolios
• Medical Student Debt Paydown   
• Stocks, Bonds, EFTs 
• Cash Flow Management  
• Mutual Funds
• Tax Mitigation Strategies 
• Wealth Accumulation Strategies Protection Planning
• Child Education Planning 

Please click HERE to learn more about Bob Powalski and the reason why he has a keen understanding of medical professionals and has decided to dedicate his practice to counseling physicians to enhance their financial standing.

GOALS OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY FOR 2022

• Enhancing Access to Care in our Region
• Advocating for Greater Physician Reimbursement and Scope of Practice Protection
• Connecting UB Medical Students with Seasoned Professionals to Incentivize Young Talent to Remain in the Region Upon Graduation and Resolve Recruitment Obstacles for our Regional Practices
• Distributing Communications Important to Your Practice to 3,533 Regional Physicians (the reliable contact information of which was provided by the Physician Credentialing Department of the NYSED)
• Providing Free Consultative Employment Contract Review to Prevent Undue Restrictive Covenants (Your Executive Director is an Attorney who is also a certified Contract Administrator)
• Unifying Regional Physician Practices through Committee Collaboration to Address Common Pain Points and to Share Best Practices; and of course...much, much more!  

• Victories in NY Show That Our Advocacy Works! by Rose Berkun, MD, FASA
• American Journal of Medicine: 

  Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection by Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

• Another Voice: 2/6/21 Article in Continued Support of Dr. Gale Burstein
• Another Voice:  7/21/20 - Support for Dr. Gale Burstein
• Health Advisory: Revised Protocols for Personnel in Healthcare and Other Direct Care Settings to Return to Work Following COVID-19 Exposure or Infection
  

• Travel Restrictions

• Community COVID-19 Testing Resources
• Isolation and Quarantine Information
  
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  
• Up-To-Date COVID Data
• Community Resources
  
• New York State Executive Orders
  
• Erie County Emergency and Executive Orders 
• CMS Publishes Program Year 2019 Open Payments Data

Association of Dose Tapering With Overdose or Mental Health Crisis Among Patient Prescribed Long-Term Opioids

Opioid Tapering Practices - Time for Reconsideration?

Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll: Impact of Coronavirus on Personal Health,Economic and Food Security, and Medicaid

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CARES Act Provider Relief Fund FAQ 1  FAQ 2

This is just a friendly reminder that the Medical Society of Erie County in no way endorses drugs or pharmaceutical drug companies mentioned in its distributions. 

Below are links to recent MMWRs (Morbidity and Mortality Reports) relating to the COVID-19 booster:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e3.htm?s_cid=mm7104e3_w

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e2.htm?s_cid=mm7104e2_w

Thank you UBMD Physicians' Group for this COVID update. Where are we now? What's important to know? Kevin Gibbons, MD, FACS, FAANS provides a great overview.

Click HERE to view the video.