Take off the Masks

I woke to the sound of the flag flapping at half-mast outside my window at the Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel on September 11, still unsure about how I felt being at the American Medical Association's 13th Annual Conference of the National Task Force on CME instead of with family and loved ones on that difficult day. The AMA, like other groups that had meetings that week, had the tough job of balancing mourning with the meeting's message.