Letter from Executive Director
It is an incredible honor for me to lead and serve this great Society of ours. While we have seen great success, we want to do more. Our industry is…
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Mark Your Calendars: August 23, September 20, October 12
Much of what you read below is little more than a lightly edited reprise of past “Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future” letters I have written. If I thought I…
Read More Logos: More than Meets the Eye
Bruce Cohen, in his Letter from the President, focused on what has so far, and will continue to be the dominant theme for the CNS in 2022: “Change”. Chief among…
Read More Living Richly in the Real World
“The greatest poverty is not to live in a physical world.”– Wallace Stevens, 1944 It may well be true that physicans’ lives and livelihoods are defined too little by poets…
Read More September 19, 29 and October 20: Mark Your Calendars
We measure ourselves by many standards. Our strength and our intelligence, our wealth and even our good luck, are things which warm our heart and make us feel ourselves a…
Read More American Dreams (“If you have to ask….”)
It never occurred to me while watching Amanda Gorman deliver her stirring inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb” on January 20 that her last name is an anagram for Morgan…
Read More Looking Ahead to the 50th Annual Meeting…in Boston
Like many of you, I find myself struggling with a mild variant of pseudo-schizophrenia these days, holding animated conversations on solitary walks with at least three different “inner selves”: 1….
Read More Make it About You – September 2020
We measure ourselves by many standards. Our strength and our intelligence, our wealth and even our good luck, are things which warm our heart and make us feel ourselves a…
Read More “Chicago Hope”
Perhaps no American city has been more often or more closely associated with the word “hope” over time than Chicago. In both, or all, directions. On one end of the…
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