Commentary

n MESSAGE FROM THE MEDICAL EDITOR
Some of My Colleagues are Surgeons... and other Accounts from the NASS Annual Meeting  
Stuart M. Weinstein, MD

n FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT
What Have You Done for Me Lately?  
Joel M. Press, MD

 Current Concepts  

n INVITED REVIEW
Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring of the Spinal Cord and Nerve Roots  
Jefferson C. Slimp, MD

n CURVE/COUNTERCURVE
Spinal Stenosis with Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis: Fusion versus Decompression Alone 
Ahmet Alanay, MD; Daniel Gelb, MD; Jeffrey C. Wang, MD

n LITERATURE REVIEW
New from the Journals 
Christopher Miller; Peter G. Whang; Jonathan N. Grauer, MD; Paul E. Kaplan, MD; Paul M. Arnold, MD, FACS

n ABSTRACT REVIEW
NASS Annual Meeting Abstracts  
Michael Schaufele, MD; Scott Boden, MD

n COMMITTEE PERSPECTIVE
Roundtable Discussion: Prolotherapy 
NASS Complementary Medicine Committee, Simon Dagenais, DC, PhD, Roundtable Editor

 Socioeconomics & Politics  

n PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
How to Avoid or Recover from Embezzlement 
J.P. Waldman, MD, MBA

n ETHICAL/LEGAL
Ethical Issues Associated with Health Care Industry Representatives in the Operating Room 
Shaye Moskowitz, MD, PhD; Paul J. Ford, PhD

n ADVOCACY/LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS/PAC
Health Policy Issues Increasingly Decided at State Level   
Jeffrey J. Wise, MD

 NASS News  

NASS Thanks 2006 Research Fund Contributors

NASS Calendar