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Cll/IL /TUITION /MEDICAL /ISSOCMTION (Headquarters) 801 Green Bay Road Lake Bluff, Illinois 60044 BULLETIN 312/234-6330 CAAAA JUNE, 1980 passion for the robber but not the and mediocre standards. Whathas hap• THE PRESIDENT'S robbed, the murderer but not the mur• pened to good old fashioned pride? MESSAGE dered, the rapist but not the raped. The When I was in undergraduate school, I Courts are especially guilty of this since worked for my uncle who was a builder. they usually see only the criminals and One summer we built a house for a phy• not the victims of crime. Can you imag• sician. When it came time to install the ine another time when the President and hardware the doctor asked my uncle to Congress would bless Chrysler, which use the most inexpensive equipment Dr. Robert 3. did everything wrong, and pub!4cly-re- available because he was short of money. Poole pudiate and denigrate Exxon which did I know this comes as a shock that phy• everything right, making a huge profit sicians run short of money too. My uncle on which it paid a huge tax, employing a told him no. He said, "You may be buy• huge work force and supplying a huge ing this house but this is my house. part of the Gross National Product. When your friends see the cheap hard• There is no longer free competitionin ware, they will think I'm a cheap builder. the news industry so we are inundated So I will install the hardware planned by irresponsible interpretative journa• and you pay me when you get the mon• REMARKS BEFORE THE AIRLINE lism, scare headlines and sensational• ey." We need more people like my uncle, PILOTS ASSOCIATION ism. We simply can't believe what we the U.S. Hockey Team and Eric Heiden. AIR SAFETY WORKSHOP read, see or hear. So is it surprising that We used to have a whole country full of MARCH 4, 1980 we hear from the cockpit "this dumb people like them. HYATT REGENCY, approach plate says we should be high• I can't imagine the United States of WASHINGTON, D.C. er"? Our archaic and unfair, crazy quilt 200 years ago letting a second rate BY: ROBERT S. POOLE, M.D. income tax laws train us to cheat a little. country hold us hostage. They didn't PRESIDENT, CIVIL AVIATION Unchecked inflation robs us so we try to even let a first rate country do it. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION recoup by stealing a little. So we cheat a So times have changed. I wonder if we little on minima in IFR weather, precise can survive the next twenty years let airspeed control or we steal a little from alone the next 200 years. Abraham Lin• "PRIDE AND practice by using the autopilot too much. coln said over 100 years ago that we We don't give that extra measure of ef• would never be defeated by a foreign PERFORMANCE" fort to maintain currency or to keep enemy but only by the enemy from The medical profession has no formal abreast on new advances. We spend less within. professional performance standards. It time in the pursuit of excellence and too We can't legislate standards. We need is assumed that after four years of Pre- much time in the pursuit of pleasure. to instill in our children PRIDE by pre• Med., four years of Medicine, a year of What is it about Americans that make us cept and example. And that's when we internship, four to five years or more of demand the very best but allow us to will once again attain the highest pro• residency and specialty training and readily accept the very mediocre? Medi• fessional performance standards. multiple tests and examinations, ob• ocre Performance, mediocre products viously well motivated and dedicated individuals need no performance stan• dards. The few who are not well moti• vated probably wouldn't follow a set of BY-LAWS AMENDED arbitrary standards anyway. Professional performance standards On May 12, 1980, the Board of Direc• are a two edged sword. They are estab• tors passed the following amendment to EAL KiEDtCAL lished at a level to accommodate the the By-laws: the lowest or weakest performer in the Chapter II Section I, Subsection A to FUTURE MEETINGS group and, therefore, actually lower the be amended as follows: standards of the majority. Even the ACTIVE MEMBERS: Any duly licens• At the Board of Directors meeting held Courts have been careful in this area. In ed physician who is a member in good May 12, 1980 at the Disneyland Hotel, the past, a physician who failed to ob• standing of his local, county, state and/ Anaheim, California, the following sites tain an X-ray may have been guilty of or national medical societies, and is were selected for future annual meetings: malpractice but one who obtained X- interested in aviation medicine, or any 1981 Hawaii rays even if he misinterpreted them might individual engaged in or employed by 1982 Mexico not. But things are changing in these aviation or medically oriented industries 1983 Vancouver bizarre times. Bishop Sheen called it a may be elected to membership in the 1984 Las Vegas time of false compassion. We have com• Association. 1985 London ANNUAL MEETING ters. We hope to have a great surprise for you this year during the annual banquet. HIGHLIGHTS Friday will end the gala week with a physiological training course and a by Robert S. Poole, M.D., President chamber ride in the afternoon at Andrews Air Force Base. The Scientific Program Committee has As a special feature, Max Karant will prepared a timely and interesting pro• speak at the Friday luncheon to top off gram, from the CPR certification course an outstanding program. to the Respiratory Therapy Update. Mark your calendars for September 28 The Local Arrangements Committee through October 3, 1980, at Stouffer's has prepared asuper program which will National Center Hotel, right at the keep everyone busy. It will begin with entrance to Washington's National Air• the traditional reception on Sunday port (walking and luggage lugging dis• night, September 28, at which we shall tance.) Ya'll come. Hear? renew old acquaintance and meet new friends. There will be a daily luncheon with a "cracker jacks" prize every day. On Monday we shall show the brand new, thirty minute film, "Adventures in Art" with Julie Harris as commentator, based on the book by Marian King. It is a fascinating look at the world of art, and WELCOME ABOARD! is a must for the connoisseur as well as We are happy to welcome the follow• the neophyte. Miss King will be present ing new members into the fellowship of at the luncheon to autograph books for CAMA: any one interested. On Tuesday or Wednesday morning, William S. Barry, M.D. we have planned a White House Tea with Kalamazoo, Ml the First Lady. This should be interest• ing as well as exciting, and includes a Hugh B. Cowan, M.D. special tour of the White House. (The Dickinson, North Dakota White House could not commit a defi• nite date at this time, but will notify us Raymond G. Christensen, M.D. sometime during the summer whether it Moose Lake, Minnesota is to be on Tuesday or Wednesday. At the luncheon on Tuesday, Dr. Paul David Ekern Ott, M.D. E. Garber, Historian Emeritus of the Hinsdale, Illinois Foundations of American Government — t NASM will tell usabout the Smithsonian, without seeing the three documents whic and our afternoon tour of the Paul E. Howard H. Frankel, M.D. States government. The Declaration of Inc Garber Restoration and Preservation Huntington Beach, CA. Rights are displayed every day at the Nat Facility, lovingly called Garber's Harbor, and Visitors Bureau photo. and better known as the Silver Hill Facil• David S. Grauman, M.D. ity, which is a "no frills" museum dis• Fairbanks, Alaska playing more than a hundred air and space artifacts. Johs O. Hagelsten, M.D. At luncheon on Wednesday, we shall Copenhagen, Denmark delight the ladies as well as the gentle- ment with an epicurean and sartorial John L. Holmes, M.D. display which will include a special door Newport Beach, California prize. On Wednesday evening after a quiet James LaBagnara, M.D. dinner on your own, we shall, see a spe• Paterson, New Jersey cial showing of the NASM film "To Fly", following which Dr. Garber will tell us Frederico Morera, M.D. about the National Air and Space Muse• Buenos Aires, Argentina um, to make the tour on your own more interesting and meaningful. Then he will AT. Navaratnam, M.D. speak about "13 Famous Aircraft" with Colombo, Sri Lanka visual aids. A fabulous and perhaps a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear from the man who personally talked and flew with aviation's legends.