Dear Colleagues:

Welcome to the September 2022 issue of the SED Newsletter. Each September we feature our SED members who serve on AMA Boards, Councils and Committees. Some of the following essays are written by the individuals, some by AMA staff and for some we feature their AMA standard bios. Please support your colleagues who work hard for you all year long. This year many are Chairs of their respective Boards or Councils – this impressive list includes Drs Fryhofer, Scott, Reilly and Imbeau.

Our next SED Newsletter issue will be about the Interim meeting in Hawaii at the Honolulu Hilton, November 11-15, 2022.  ABOUT the HAWAII meeting – BOOK any dinner reservations EARLY as they can be competitive and often fill up early.

Until then,

John Poole, MD, Chair (NJ)

Clay Hays, MD, Chair-elect (MS)

Claudette Dalton, MD, Immediate Past Chair (VA)

Stephen Imbeau, MD, Newsletter Editor (SC)

Ravi Goel, MD

Beyond the Stethoscope

Stephen A Imbeau, MD 

First published March 13, 2018, reproduced here by permission of the Morning News and SCNow.

Man, It's Hot Outside

Many of you have been very curious about how I came to be a struggling golf caddy on the Georgia Coast in 1931. Well, I was forced east by the Dust Bowl. Most of you probably forget that the hottest decade ever recorded for the United States was the decade of the 1930’s.

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