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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:1105-1112
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Presidential address

The practice of medicine in the year 2010: revisited in 2001

^a Los Angeles, California, USA

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Presented at the Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, New Orleans, LA, Jan 29–31, 2001.

	Introduction

 
My family joins me in thanking the membership for the extraordinary privilege and honor of having served as the 35th President of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). I include my family in this "thank you" because they have always supported me in every adventure I have embarked upon, and have accepted the consequences with dignity. I especially thank my wife, Martha, who has kept us all together these past 2 years. She, our daughter Lori, Lori’s fiancé Brian Goler, our son Stephen, and my brother Ken, have been my equivalent of the STS Chicago and Washington staff, dedicated to our common commitment to the patients who have entrusted their lives to our care.

	Today’s perspective

 

In this first year of the third millennium, I would like to look backward 10 to 15 years and then forward for a similar period of time, believing that many of the past impetuses for change that we have seen in our social institutions in general, and in medicine in particular, will still be operative through 2010 to 2015. For me, this time frame begins with my mid-career Masters of Public Administration sabbatical at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, in the academic year 1988 to 1989; and extends through to at least the beginning of the Baby Boomers’ "coming of age" in 2010. My observations have been based on the interactions I have had with the STS membership this year and so this address can be considered as a "State of the Society" message.

On the occasion of the Joint Conference on Graduate Education in Thoracic Surgery at Oak Brook, Illinois, in 1993, I was asked to project what the practice of medicine would be like in the year 2010 as a background to deciding how and whom we should train for cardiothoracic surgery . . . [Full Text of this Article]