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Soon after we at Outpatient Surgery Magazine decided to launch a conference and name it OR Excellence, a not-so-funny thing happened: The economy collapsed. Talk about bad timing. Would it bring our show down with it, we wondered? What if we threw a party and nobody attended — not because they didn't want to, but because they couldn't afford to?
