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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 79:1282-89 (1997)
© 1997 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

The American Orthopaedic Association: Critical Choices*

STUART L. WEINSTEIN, M.D.{dagger}, IOWA CITY, IOWA

*First President-Elect's Address. Read at the Annual Meeting of The American Orthopaedic Association, Boca Raton, Florida, June 14, 1997.


   Introduction
 
Mr. President, distinguished international presidents and visitors, members of The American Orthopaedic Association, ladies, and gentlemen:

It is a great honor for me to address this assembly and to assume the presidency of the oldest and most distinguished society of orthopaedic surgeons in the world. Today I have chosen to speak about a subject that has long been on my mind, and one that I think has been on your minds as well, a subject of importance to all in this room. That subject is The American Orthopaedic Association and the critical choice before us in 1997.

For 111 years, those elected to The American Orthopaedic Association have been faced immediately with a critical choice: is the invitation to join this illustrious body an end or a beginning? Or, to put it more bluntly and more directly, do you think of your membership as a culmination, an honor in recognition . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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