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Ann Thorac Surg 2000;70:1-2
© 2000 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Editorial

The quill passes

L. Henry Edmunds, Jr, MDa

a Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Address reprint requests to Dr Edmunds, Editor, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 5000 Ravdin Court, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104–4283; Phone: (215) 349-5542; Fax: (215) 614-0416
e-mail: ats@mail.med.upenn.edu

This is the first issue of The Annals edited by the Philadelphia office. Tom, Carol, Heide, and I hope you won’t notice. The transition is over, made smooth and efficient by the cheerful dedication of Tom, Carol, Elsie, Carol, Tammy, and Cookie in St. Louis. We deeply thank them for ourselves, our publisher, our advertisers, and for all of you.

During its stay in St. Louis The Annals grew from 7,784 subscribers to 10,313, from 1,214 pages a year to 4,628. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons grew from 2,285 members to 4,241 (Fig 1). Most importantly, both The Annals and the Society became international institutions and pioneered information transfer by electrons. This growth and these initiatives have charted our course for the future. What’s next?



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  		Fig 1. Growth of subscribers to The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and members of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons during The Annals’ residence in St. Louis, MO. (Open circles = members; closed circles = subscribers.)

 
This is the dawn of instant news, data access and information transfer; it brings opportunities and hazards, choices and decisions [1]. No one knows how people, including thoracic surgeons, will integrate the Internet into their daily lives. If past is prologue, surgeons will assimilate the instant availability and multiple venues of electronic information transfer independently and differently as they concentrate on surgery, patient care and other obligations. Eventually the form and format of The Annals . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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