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From the Editor
Become immortalized in the online archives of the SCA by sending in a letter, response, or contributing an article to the SCA Newsletter! If you have been fortunate enough to have been president of the SCA or participated in the PRO and CON debates, you can also find your portrait displayed, together with your opinion, on the web site. Since May 1998, all letters, articles, and literature reviews that were published in the SCA Newsletter can be accessed online at www.scahq.org. Starting in 2002, Newsletter issues will be indexed also according to year, volume, and issue number to facilitate referencing and retrieval of the growing numbers of articles in the archive. The site-specific search engine on the SCA web site can even be used to find articles according to author, topic, or words in the text. This is a convenient feature that is far superior to the filing system employed in most homes, offices, or even at the SCA headquarters. Last year we considered publishing only an electronic version of the Newsletter. The SCA Newsletter Committee, however, decided unanimously that SCA members would prefer paper. Paper is easier to read, can be stuffed into a scrub pocket, or left on the kitchen countertop. Nonetheless, mailings are costly. For that reason, the paper version of the Newsletter is now limited to 8 pages. While the paper version will still print the full text of articles, reference lists will be abbreviated or left out. The online version will have full text and full referenced citations. From time to time, to accommodate additional content, articles or letters may appear only on the web site. The SCA Newsletter Committee encourages members to make use of the printed, electronic, and archived versions of the Newsletter.
Albert T. Cheung, MD |