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What to Look For in This Issue of the Bulletin
BTy Richard E. Burney, MD
he primary focus of this issue of the Bulletin is the upcoming House of Delegates meeting. The HOD will meet April 30-May 1, 2022 at the Kalamazoo
Radisson hotel. It’s the first in-person meeting in three years. Although COVID precautions will be in place, delegates are looking forward to the kind of comradery and com- munication that has been absent since the pandemic began in March 2020, almost exactly two years ago. On this topic, there are four articles. You can read the resolutions being submitted by the WCMS Executive Council (page 14), the resolutions being submitted by the medical students from Washtenaw County (page 12), a description by the students on their process for authoring resolutions (How We Think Up and Write Resolutions, page 10), and my editorial ob- servations (It’s HOD Season Once Again, page 8).
In his President’s Message, WCMS President John Hopper puts new meaning into the old metaphor, “one in a million.” Dr. Hopper, an expert in adolescent and
addiction medicine, writes from heart-felt personal experience.
“Something You May
Have Missed (page 27),”
summarizes a thought-
provoking essay I ran
across in the e-newsletter from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in which Shobita Parthasarathy, University of Michigan Professor of Public Policy and director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, describes how technology interacts with diversity, equity, and inclusion in ways you never imagined.
Finally, for light reading, chapter 3 of the story of “The Cottage,” in which “improvements” on the old place are needed as electricity comes to the island and island con- struction methods show their weaknesses after 20 years. •
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