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Presidential Address

Jonathan E. Rhoads, MD, DSc(Med)

Arch Surg. 1985;120(1):13-16.

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It came to me as somewhat of a shock one year ago to receive a telephone call from William Altemeier, MD, at breakfast time on the first day of the meeting of the Surgical Infection Society (SIS). The conversation went somewhat like this:

DR ALTEMEIER: "The nominating committee of the Surgical Infection Society met this morning."

DR RHOADS: "I did not know that I was a member of it."

DR ALTEMEIER: "You are not."

DR RHOADS: "I did not think I was."

DR ALTEMEIER: "The committee wants to nominate you for the presidency of the SIS. Will you accept?"

DR RHOADS: "I can think of many younger people who would be more appropriate [I mentioned, as an example, Dr Basil Pruitt]."

DR ALTEMEIER: "The committee thinks that the society should be in senior hands a little longer."

DR RHOADS: "If this is the committee's final decision, I will serve if . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Read before the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Surgical Infection Society, Montreal, April 30, 1984.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 13, 1984.

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