Hello, 2025!
That list of figures sounds like science fiction to me, but oh well, 2025 is now. Here we are. Having been born in 1980, I believe the year 2025 sounds like Jetsons material. Perhaps you middle-agers (and beyond) can identify. We’re really not that far from The Jetsons … self-driving vehicles are zipping around, anyway.
Autonomous vehicles! I still don’t believe we’re making enough fuss over this as a culture. Cars are driving themselves, for crying out loud, and we’re like, “Oh, yeah, that’s no big deal.” And it won’t be, soon enough.
Anyway, I wish you all a good year personally, and for your practices. Here at EndoPro we will be introducing some new developments, including the return of the EndoNurse cartoon. Do you remember her? She was a sweet cartoon character that featured in every edition of our predecessor magazine, EndoNurse. She had a colleague, EndoTech, who I’m convinced was not only her colleague (wink, wink).
More enigmatic was the appearance of EndoNurse’s canine, Arf. I have never quite comprehended why there would be a dog in an endoscopy center. His presence wasn’t exactly screaming of good infection-control procedure. I mean, Arf was no doubt licking who-knows-what. Okay, fine, dog mouths are strangely sanitary, but only if you think of it as being a dog mouth. The standards are not high.
Such as, where was the Joint Commission during this comic strip? But sadly, I came into possession of the cartoon—I did not create it—and it did not feel cruel to get rid of Arf. It’s not his fault that he does not adhere to infection-prevention practices, and I didn’t want to disappoint EndoNurse.
This year EndoNurse will begin appearing in cartoon form, but I’m not certain whether this will bring back reappearances of the actual comic strip. We’ll see!
Another change is that we’ll also be using an “end mark,” which is a symbol or icon at the end of an article to signify the article is done. Also, our website is going to improve this year, so stay tuned for updates there.
I truly hope this will be a good year for you. Let’s all drive into 2025 with full gusto, but maybe not from a self-driving car (I’m not ready!)
