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Archive > October, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 10

Editor's Page

What's On Your Mind?

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

We just put the finishing touches on our 2012 editorial calendar. Not sure what's harder: planning 12 issues a year in advance or coming up with fresh angles for patient warming (do it!) and smoke evacuation (do it!) stories. Yes, it's a challenge. But it's also a wonderful eye opener, because every year in advance of preparing the editorial calendar, we visit with many of our readers and send out an online survey to thousands of you to find out what's going on in your world, what's keeping you up nights and what's driving you to get to work early most mornings. Here's what you told us.

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