Sam Porter
Today, we don t seem to share an understanding of the common good, as the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board recently said regarding the “uncompromising individualism” of those who refuse to wear masks.
That “individualism,” the editorial board adds, puts “the lie to the aspirational notion that when the chips are down, Americans hang together.”
Democracy presupposes and is designed to contain conflict. But it requires, according to the civic republican tradition that stretches from Aristotle through Rousseau and the American founders, that we “hang together.”
In his 2015 U.S. Library of Congress Kluge Prize acceptance speech, the Canadian political theorist Charles Taylor sketches democratic bonding in terms of requirements.
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WASHINGTON - The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) presented its Master Interventionalists of SCAI (MSCAI) designations during the SCAI 2020 Scientific Sessions Virtual Conference MSCAI recognition ceremony.
The MSCAI designation is awarded to individuals who have demonstrated excellence in invasive/interventional cardiology over the course of their career and for their commitment to the highest levels of clinical care, innovation, publication, and teaching.
This year s MSCAI designations were awarded to the following group of outstanding interventionalists:
Ian C. Gilchrist, MD, MSCAI
Dr. Ian C. Gilchrist is a professor of medicine for Penn State University s College of Medicine at the Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, PA. Dr. Gilchrist graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and then obtained his medical degree from Columbia University. He received his residency and cardiology fellowship training at the St. Luke s/Roosevelt Hospi