Memories of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics 1980 were at the forefront of many ’83 ice hockey team players’ minds while watching the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Rich Diver has multiple Dartmouth ice hockey memories, including watching Carey Wilson play against the United States for Canada during the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics. “No one ever forgets to remind me at reunions of how much fun it was to be the Swedish Olympic team’s final tune-up before Lake Placid in 1980!” Marisa DeAngelis also shared a memory of playing Dartmouth women’s ice hockey during the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. She recalls, “We were sitting in a locker room at an away game listening to the radio as the United States beat the USSR in the semifinals matchup, the ‘Miracle on Ice.’ Right after they won we flew out on the ice in Maine just after our boys crushed the USSR.” Anne Albright and Marisa DeAngelis have Rashomon effect memories of the same game. Anne recalls: “We were in upstate New York (Cornell and Clarkson, perhaps) for a weekend of away games. While dining at a restaurant we watched the United States vs. USSR men’s hockey semifinal. No such thing as DVR back then—it was on live TV. The United States, huge underdogs, won 4-3! Those of us who then knew how momentous this victory was (A.E. Lovett, for example) explained it to those who did not (me).” Heather Roulston Ettinger fondly remembers shooting practice against goalie Anne Albright until they were kicked off the ice.

The practice of medicine has become even more exhausting and disheartening for many of our physician classmates during the pandemic. Sarah Reynolds Walton has recently stepped back following an intense 18-year career in academic medicine as a pediatric anesthesiologist at the University of Michigan and a 27- year career in Navy medicine, retiring with the rank of captain. She currently does locum tenens work 16 to 18 weeks a year at pediatric hospitals in Fresno, California, and in Dayton, Ohio. She is enjoying more time with her grandchildren. Sarah says medicine “has become political, regulated, and much of the art of patient care and the personal relationships with colleagues and patients no longer exist, leading to greater burnout.” Eileen Lynch has been an attending anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for 30-plus years, participating in the care of cancer patients, providing clinical anesthesia care, and mentoring medical students, residents, and colleagues. She describes many physicians as physically and emotionally challenged these past two years, and the burnout in healthcare providers cannot be overstated. Eileen has concerns about the future availability of healthcare providers for patients. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Steve Hommeyer writes, “I’m a radiologist, so the volume of horrible-looking lungs I see on CT scans closely follows the spikes and dips of Covid cases you see in the news. It would be great to see a prolonged dip in the action as omicron wanes.”

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com