IMG Recognition Week
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Colleagues:
Being ill is no fun, though it does enforce time in bed (or in my case, time on the toilet) to contemplate one’s own physical fragility and mortality. To those of you who noticed there was no President’s Corner in Pulse last week, I thank you for calling and checking on my welfare. Recognition is important. And this past week, IMG Recognition Week was celebrated to honor our IMG physicians.
IMG physicians are a vital component of the physician workforce and MSSNY’s IMG physicians play a critical role in the delivery of health care services. Having a disruption to the flow of IMGs who practice medicine in the U.S. would cause a tremendous change in medicine and affect the lives of our fellow physicians and of our patients.
Too often, we only really appreciate people when they are gone, for the hole they leave in our lives. That is true of loved ones. It is also true of our colleagues. When our colleagues are out sick, when they retire, or when they are suddenly taken away from us, our call schedules are affected, our workload goes up, and our sense of community is diminished. We are also diminished in a comparable way when potential colleagues are denied the opportunity to join us in the practice of medicine.
MSSNY is proud to represent IMG physicians and all physicians in practice.
All the best,
Jerome C. Cohen, MD
MSSNY President
