Reflections on a Year as President

It’s hard to believe another year has passed us by. I am sure many of us feel similarly about 2021 as we did about 2020 — basically “Good Riddance!” — thanks in large part to the ongoing pandemic with its seemingly interminable surprises and surges. Most of us experienced serious illness and death among our patients and residents during January and then during the summer Delta surge. Some of us have lost staff and colleagues. Others have experienced the death of a family member. But we have all experienced losses as America has buried almost a million COVID dead, and the end does not appear to be in sight.