eration smile’s campaign From AlBawaba With the attendance of HRH Princess Alia Al Faisal and Vice President /JTG, CEO of Orange Personal Majd Shweikeh, Orange sponsored the annual charity event of Operation Smile in Jordan to celebrate the program s twenty-fifth anniversary since it was established in the USA. Orange sponsorship came in appreciation of the great efforts of the Honorary President of the program Her Majesty Queen Rania Al- Abdullah, who calls to draw smiles on the faces of children with facial deformities.

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Should physicians be the leaders of anesthesiology? From mkeamy.typepad.com/anesthesiacaucus/ NY Times article on the movement of nurses from the third world to the US such that every new nurse anesthetist translates into one less bedside ICU nurse, which in turn further contributes to the nursing shortage in poor countries, despite the fact that there are non-RN alternative anesthesia providers. The Summer 2007 issue includes an article by Robert Johnstone, an ASA Director, who describes efforts by the AANA to promote a competing bill that would include direct Medicare funding of...

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