AAOS Annual Meeting

The annual meeting now forces you to use this app instead of the traditional printed program. With so many concurrent sessions going on, it is much more difficult to plan your day using the app. The old way wasn’t broken and this is a solution looking for a problem. If the aim is to reduce waste, the how about the plastic bag with industry flyers you get at registration that everyone immediately throws away, or the thousands of copies of AAOS Now being handed out that we all get in the mail anyway?

Need to include the hotel already chosen on the personal profile

AAOS meetings have gotten much too expensive and available food is crap. Instructional course that were $25-50 are now $90, meeting that was included as part of membership dues is now $350 while the membership has jumped to $1076. This is unjustifiable. We need reduced expense commensurate with the drastically reduced reimbursement for services we provide and light refreshment with and without caffeine plus sandwiches and fruit readily available and included.