It is with deep sadness that I witness the demise of CCM-L this weekend. I met Stephen Streat during a visit to Auckland in the mid-1990s. Hardly a day goes by when I do not think about David Crippen, the moderator of CCM-L. For 23 years the colourful and fascinating off topic messages on CCM-L have stood in stark contrast to the stick to business character of the messages on NEPHROL. I did not really want NEPHROL to be like CCM-L but was fascinated by the thought about what it would be like if that did happen. In more recent years David Crippen and I have developed a formal polar opposite alter ego relationship and I have given presentations about that https://youtube/watch?v=0I3-WApzWWQ https://youtube/watch?v=lR27YbNHLGU . David and I and Anson Dong are writing a paper together for the American Journal of Transplantation using the alter ego relationship as a metaphor. David is an excellent writer, and I am sure the paper we are writing together will benefit for the greater amount of time he has on his hands now that CCM-L is done. Still I regret very much the passing of this great electronic medical resource, and my online life will be just a little less interesting from this day forward because of the absence of CCM-L messages in my inbox ccm-l.org/ . As Dylan Thomas said: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. You will be long remembered, CCM-L! All the best. - Kim Kim Solez, M.D. Moderator, NEPHROL
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:24:45 +0000
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