From day to day, the great majority of anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, anesthesiologist assistants and their group practices provide excellent patient care.  Most enjoy comfortable relationships with their hospitals and surgery centers, too. The world of health care is changing all around us, though.  Every anesthesia practice needs to understand the more important changes and to adapt, or plan to adapt.  In this issue of the Communiqué, you will find a number of articles that will help you prepare for the short-term and long-term future. We start with Mark Weiss, Esq.’s Protecting Your Exclusive Contract, Your Practice and Your Profits.  Mr. Weiss aptly shows that the process of negotiating your next hospital contract starts the moment you have signed this one.  The anecdote about Walt Disney’s arrival at Universal Pictures’ headquarters in New York to renegotiate the terms of their deal, only to find that Universal, not he, held the copyright in his cartoon character and...