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anesthesia department, hospital, decision making, developing countries, dna, fees and charges, global burden of disease, health care systems, health outcomes, hiv, immunization

This piece should perhaps come under the title “What’s New in Your WFSA.” And after the warm welcome that I and other WFSA officers received in San Francisco at ASA’s annual meeting, it is more than apparent that this is a shared endeavor. For more than 50 years, ASA has been a valued contributor to our World Federation, not just through the annual fees that it pays to support our work (around $2.50 per year for each ASA registered member) but through the active contribution of individual anesthesiologists such as Mark Lema M.D., Ph.D., Berend Mets, M.B.,Ch.B., Vinod Malhotra, M.D., Adrian Gelb, M.B.,B.Ch., Charles Otto, M.D., Quentin Fisher, M.D., Roger Moore, M.D., Steve Howard, M.D., Robert Peterfreund, M.D., Ph.D., Douglas Bacon, M.D., M.A., Krystof Kuczkowski, M.D., Mark Newton, M.D., Constantine Sarantopoulos, M.D., Ph.D. and others. Volunteering is in the DNA of the WFSA; if we were to give it a...

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