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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;130:961-965
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Presidential Address

For everything there is a season

Tirone E. David, MD *

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery of Toronto General Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Read at the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Francisco, Calif, April 10-13, 2005.

Received for publication April 22, 2005; accepted for publication May 9, 2005.

* Address for reprints: Tirone E. David, MD, 200 Elizabeth St—4N457, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2C4 (Email: tirone.david@uhn.on.ca).

The first 300 words of the full text of this article appear below.

I would like to thank the nominating committee and the members of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery for honoring and entrusting me with the presidency of this prestigious academic organization. I have to share this honor with my colleagues from Toronto General Hospital for supporting me and sharing my views on patient care, teaching, and research for so many years.

I am indebted to the late Dr Bill Bigelow, a past president of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the person responsible for bringing me to Canada.

I am grateful to Bob Jones, Cindy VerColen, Bill Maloney, and their supporting staff for helping to make my tenure as president interesting, rewarding, and painless.

Finally, I must thank my wife, Jacqueline, who has put up with me for more than 30 years with understanding, grace, and compassion, which I am not sure I always deserved. Jackie has supported my professional growth unconditionally and never imposed any interfering demands. Jackie, I am grateful, admiring, and sometimes astonished. Jackie single-handedly raised three wonderful human beings: all three, fortunately, are much like her, our daughters, Adriane, Carolyn, and Kristen.

This address is about changes in cardiac surgery and my views on excellence in patient care. The title was borrowed from the book of Ecclesiastes, which contains the thoughts of a philosopher who reflected on how short and contradictory life was. I read the Bible as a child, but the meaning of the words "for everything there is a season" made no sense until I was 14 years old. Two painful events occurred within a few months that year: my parents sent me away from home to attend high school, where initially I felt lost and abandoned, and my paternal grandfather died. It was then that I learned that "for everything there is . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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