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| News & Info: Letter from the President - January 8, 2009 Dear Brooklyn
Pediatrician, Last week I sent an invitation to you and the other 690
pediatricians here in Brooklyn for the upcoming meeting of the Brooklyn
Pediatric Society to be held on January
14th at the Fort Hamilton Officers’ Club located right next to
the Verrazano Bridge. This week I
am writing to ask you to please, please
send in your dues of $150, join us for January 14th and support your
Society. These are momentous times for our nation, our world and our
profession. There are countless
justifications for despair. Yet as
the recent election demonstrated in such exhilarating manner there are also rock
solid reasons for hope and optimism. The staggering economic collapse spells tough times and
budget cuts. Yet as Dr. Schaeffer
informed us in his latest email message to the pediatricians in NY State’s
District II, there are powerful forces waging battles both on the state and the
national level to maintain and improve funding for children’s health.
This is not the time to lapse into frustration and cynicism.
On the contrary. Surely it
is time to stand up more strongly and more forcefully to make the case for what
we know is right for the health and well-being of our nation’s most precious
asset – its children. We have an exciting and critically important program
planned for January 14th. Dr.
Robert Schiller will give a CME-accredited
talk on “Alternative Medicine in Pediatrics.”
Dr. Schaeffer will summarize what has been happening on the state and
national levels in regards to children’s health. Then we will have a Q & A session and panel discussion
concerning issues in pediatric practice. Certainly not right away and certainly not without both
struggle and fight, but I have no doubt there are victories of great value to
our pediatric practices to be won in the coming years.
We Board members have some concrete ideas, e.g., vaccine purchasing
cooperatives and payment for telephone calls.
At the March 25th meeting we will have a formal presentation
of these and other ideas. But you have ideas as well, and you also have concerns,
questions and plain old complaints. January
14th is a golden opportunity to voice those thoughts, to hear what
your fellow pediatricians have to say, and to begin to formulate concrete plans
which we will mold into a Campaign for Pediatric Practice to be rolled out and
discussed in our next meeting on March 25th. Join us. Speak up. And send in your dues. Together we Brooklyn pediatricians can make things better. Leslie Alvarado, MD President, Brooklyn Pediatric Society
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