Upholding the Legacy: Trio president urges members to make lasting contributions

Alan Micco, MD, associate professor of otolaryngology and neurological surgery at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, said doctors do have their obligations and legacies in the backs of their minds. “While at the moment you aren’t thinking about that, you step back and say, ‘Yes, we do have an impact.’ Do we sit around and talk about it as much as we should? Probably not,” he said.

Dr. Lucente’s lecture reinforced the idea that a small thing a doctor does today could have a major effect, Dr. Micco said. “A little thing you do,” he said, “who knows in the future what effect that could have?”