Tonight was my first meeting of the Buffalo Surgical Society as the immediate Past President. I sat at the table with the current President and Secretary and two other past Presidents. The needs of the organization continue to be very challenging. The pleasure I felt at knowing that I had done a good job as President for the past year was significant. What gripped me most was the sense of history which seemed so strong as I reminisced with Dr. Leonard Berman about the Society's great traditions. The pre-dinner "cocktail" hour was most interesting as there were no cocktails just wine, beer, and soda. Clearly a reflection of the ever changing landscape of rising costs and diets. The presentation by Dr. Vasquez was very good as it represents "a good model' as so eloquently described by Dr. Dayton, the Department Chairman. However, from the salad on thru the dessert, the conversation turned to politics. The upcoming election seems uppermost on everyone's mind, not so much the election itself as what it is coming to represent as a "sign of the times". Everyone is worried and not about the same things. There seems to be more than enough worries for each person to have his own and then some. There was one unanimous feeling = everyone hates the War in Iraq. After that, the diversity begins. One person is overwhelmed by the deficit run up by Bush's administration. He fears for his children and grand-children as he knows based on his children's current employments that they will never do as well as he has done financially. More about this meeting later. JTE.
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