Did anyone make initial objections to the multispecialty organization or were most people supportive of that concept?
(Volz) Well, I think most people were supportive, Chris, but the problem was in getting some of these other subspecialties — because here we had two orthopedists who were the initial founders and to try and solicit, for instance, people from Internal Medicine, particularly, and something like OB/GYN who would be interested in “trauma” made the task a bit more difficult. You realize, of course, in the early 1970’s we really didn’t have emergency room specialists. The specialty of trauma was very thin at that time so that most orthopedists were considered to be traumatologists, so-to-speak , and we covered whatever came in the emergency room before all of this subspecialization. So, I think the greatest difficulty was sticking to the Bylaws, which dictated that only a certain percentage could be orthopedic surgeons, etc. (Wray) Describe some of the initial programs as far as you remember them—not specific papers but what sorts of subjects were presented and how much difficulty you had o
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