Letters, We Want Letters

BY GEORGE ANDROS, M.D.

opin.ion (n) the view somebody takes about a certain issue, especially when it is based solely on personal judgment.

Reporting what's new in a wide-ranging and rapidly changing area of medicine such as vascular surgery and its assocated practice is likely to ignite sparks of controversy. And those sparks can produce both heat and light.

Our specialty of vascular surgery has never been one that shied away from confronting controversial areas--both long established and newly emerging. It is for this reason that we are inaugurating in this issue a letters-to-the-editor section of VASCULAR SPECIALIST.

We invite you to submit your letters with opinions on our stories and our expert commentaries. Let us know how we are doing as we report what is new and interesting and of importance to vascular specialists.

Letters should be brief and relevant to what we have published or, indeed, what you think we should be paying attention to that we are not. We aim to publish letters that provide a fair and balanced picture of the issues.

You can send letters by e-mail (our preference for speed and practicality) to VascularSpecialist@vascularsociety.org, or you can snail-mail them to Editor, Vascular Specialist, 5635 Fishers Lane, Suite 6000, Rockville, MD, 20852.

Any letter should be sent to us within 3 weeks after you receive a particular issue, if it is to be gotten by us in time for possible publication in the next issue.

Be advised we may edit the letters for clarity, collegiality, and length. Please let us know if for some reason you do not wish to have your letter published