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I hope your fall season is treating you well and that the pandemic has not created more dysfunction than can be handled by you and your loved ones. Professional hockey finished recently with the Tampa Bay Lightning taking the Stanley Cup. I am excited to start some non-professional hockey locally again with the easing of some pandemic restrictions. Here is hoping for a healthy and safe season.

The end of this year (I do not even want to mention its name) is closing in and I am pretty sure most people will be happy to see the calendar turn to the next one. Writing this message one month before the Presidential election, I will mix my tenses and state that

I hope you voted. Apologies to any grammar police. Speaking again in mixed tense, the OMED virtual meeting was incredible! This paragraph may induce some time continuum disruption, as there was no flux capacitor involved in writing this.

Taking care of first responders, fitting OMM into a busy clinic day, treating the mind, body and spirit of our patients and creating empathy for all patients in our office, regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, disability, age (age 40 or older) or genetic information - sounds like a typical day in an osteopathic family physician’s office. This OFP issue provides valuable information related to topics OFPs see in their “typical days.” I feel these articles are timely and valuable to the practicing osteopathic physician.

The Editorial Board works to make the Osteopathic Family Physician the premier journal for family medicine D.O.’s.

As always, we are interested in hearing from our readers regarding desired topics for articles or feedback on articles. Take care and enjoy the November/December 2020 issue!