Esurg.com Partners With the Medical Society of the District of Columbia; Alliance Will Bring New Efficiencies to Members of One of the Nation's Oldest Medical Societies.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers SEATTLE--(BW HealthWire)--Sept. 11, 2000 Esurg.com, an online supplier of medical and surgical products, pharmaceuticals and other e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. solutions, announced today that it has become a corporate partner with The Medical Society of the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). (MSDC MSDC Medical Society of the District of Columbia MSDC Multi-Stage Depressed Collector MSDC Mass Storage Device Class MSDC Multi-Spot Diffusing Configuration ), one of the nation's oldest physician organizations. The society selected Esurg.com as an online supply source for its more than 2,400 members in the Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. D.C. area and is providing a prominent link from its site to www.esurg.com. One of MSDC's primary missions is to find ways members can improve their practice, said K. Edward Shanbacker, executive director of the 183-year-old organization. Esurg.com, with its easy-to-use web site, broad product selection, competitive pricing and unmatched customer service, offers an alternative to the usual hassles and inefficiencies of ordering supplies, he said. "Esurg.com truly understands the challenges facing our members," Shanbacker said. "Many of them are just starting to embrace the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the as a tool, and Esurg.com has done an outstanding job of streamlining the ordering process and allowing practices to make the most of stretched time and resources." Joe Schnepf, Esurg.com's director of national accounts, said it was a privilege to work with an organization that has such a long history of supporting the needs of physicians through information, education and advocacy. "MSDC members count on their organization to find trusted partners who share their values," Schnepf said. "We will work hard to provide those physicians with a service that goes beyond their expectations and really improves how their practice operates." About Esurg.com Esurg.com is a privately held online distributor that provides medical, surgical and pharmaceutical supplies and specialty-specific information for out-of-hospital healthcare practitioners. Esurg.com brings a broad product selection, competitive pricing and unparalleled customer service along with the convenience and efficiencies of ordering supplies online to the rapidly growing physician marketplace. About The Medical Society of the District of Columbia: MSDC is dedicated to the well being of physicians in metropolitan Washington and their patients. We advocate on behalf of our member physicians of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds; we promote high standards of character and professionalism professionalism the upholding by individuals of the principles, laws, ethics and conventions of their profession. ; and we ensure that physicians are -- and are recognized as -- the primary professionals who define and guarantee high-quality, appropriate, and cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. medical care. Above all, we aggressively defend the highest principle of all -- the integrity of the physician-patient relationship physician-patient relationship Medical malpractice A formal or inferred relationship between a physician and a Pt, which is established once the physician assumes or undertakes the medical care or treatment of a Pt; the establishment of a PPR is 'automatic' in . |
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