My fellow colleagues, I am writing this President’s Page on Tuesday, March 10, 2020, at 7:30 p.m. The reason behind the specific time reference, in sharing my thoughts with you, is not based on the fact that I’m about 7 hours past editorial deadline. It’s also not because at the time that I am writing this article, we have just recently learned that we have our first case of confirmed COVID-19 in Dallas County. It is because the perspective I intend to share with you this evening, I have to imagine, will be significantly influenced by the events that I have no doubt will come to pass in the coming weeks. By the time that you, our members, are reading this article, I anticipate what I had intended to be an exploration of principle-based obligations of our profession, will have proven to be a real-world obligation borne out in hospitals and clinics, alike.
