ACMS Foundation

2021-2022 ACMS Foundation Impact

$175,753 Awarded in 2021

 Angels’ Place, Inc.  Beverly’s Birthdays  Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh  Blood Science Foundation  Catholic Charities Free Health Care Center  Church Union  Community Partners in Asthma Care  Faith United Methodist Church  Family House  Family Medicine Education Consortium  Footbridge for Families  Jeremiah’s Place  Strong Women, Strong Girls  The Children’s Home and Lemieux Family Center  The Ronald McDonald House Charities  The Samaritan Counseling Center of Western PA

$50,000 Special Grant for Infant Formula in May 2022

Congratulations to the 2022-23 Grant Award Recipients

 Abiding Missions  Angels’ Place, Inc.  Beverly’s Birthdays  Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh  Family House  Footbridge for Families  Homeless Children’s Education Fund  Jeremiah’s Place  Light of Life Ministries, Inc.  North Hills Affordable Housing - HEARTH  Roots of Faith - Faith United Methodist Church  Storehouse for Teachers - The Education Partnership  Strong Women, Strong Girls  The Ronald McDonald House Charities  The Samaritan Counseling Center of Western PA  United Methodist Church Union

MISSION

Founded in 1960, the Allegheny County Medical Society Foundation has extended the reach of physicians into the community through grant giving to local organizations. The mission of the Foundation is: A Advancing Wellness by confronting Social Determinants and Health Disparities. This mission works to fulfill an overall vision of a healthy and safe Allegheny County. Throughout the ups and downs of the past few years, the Foundation’s work has become even more important in supporting local non-profit organizations. The desire to give back to the community is an inherent trait of those who become physicians. In past year’s the ACMS has hosted an annual gala to help raise funds to support the Foundation. Due to COVID-19, just like many other organizations, the ACMS had to forego the inperson gathering. While we look forward to hosting a Foundation fundraising event in the near future, the work of the Foundation continues on. Please consider how you can personally help support the Foundation and, in turn, continue to support a healthy region. Contact the ACMS team to learn more about how your organization can help support the ACMS Foundation.

As physicians, you know that it takes a village to keep the community healthy and safe. As we approach the holiday season and you are considering ways to give back, please consider a donation to the

Allegheny County Medical Society Foundation.

Your donation will help the Foundation fund local non-profits in future grant cycles, and will help further the mission of the ACMS Foundation.

Donations can be mailed to: ACMS Foundation 850 Ridge Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15212

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The Allegheny County Medical Society Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with tax ID number 25-6064355. Contributions to the Allegheny County Medical Society Foundation may be fully deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Editorial Editorial

adjacent lumbar vertebra, explaining her pain. My resident, from Georgia, upon seeing the findings said, in his deep southern drawl, “Fellahs, there’s a lesson here. Crocks daah (die), too.” Unfortunately for the patient, CT scanning and ultrasound exams had not been developed. The important lesson is that for most patients with a diagnosis of psychosomatic illness, the symptoms are real, and in fact a small number of these patients indeed have real abnormalities accounting for their symptoms.

Sigmund Freud’s view of humor was that it was a conscious expression of thoughts that society usually suppressed or was forbidden.2 As long as the humor, in this case namecalling, is meant in a benign fashion, it is considered harmless.

However, in today’s politically divisive atmosphere, it is best to use humor only when you truly know your audience. As a good example, I remember the not so “good old days,” when it was expected that a speaker at a conference or a refresher course would tell jokes. Many of the “old timers” were very colorful characters. Today, fortunately, speakers are business-like and jokes are tacitly forbidden, since they are bound to offend someone. Finally, we should always remember that no matter how unpleasant some of our patients are to us, they are still our fellow human beings.

Dr. Daffner, associate editor of the ACMS Bulletin, is a retired radiologist who practiced at Allegheny General Hospital for more than 30 years. He is emeritus clinical professor of Radiology at Temple University School of Medicine and is the author of nine textbooks. He can be reached at bulletin@acms.org.

The opinion expressed in this column is that of the writer and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Editorial Board, the Bulletin, or the Allegheny County Medical Society.

References

1. Shem S. The House of God. Richard Marek Publishers 1978. 2. Freud S, (Strachey J, Trans.). Jokes and their relation to the unconscious New York: W. W. Norton, 1960 (Original work published 1905).

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