An umbilical connection to our alma mater

To meet once in a while of course, have a little fun, and reminisce about the good old days. It’s really lovely to be told twenty-five years later that someone had a crush on you in medical school, and there really is nothing like an evening of rollicking fun, singing, eating and dancing together. If you were at the immaculately organized 2010 meeting in New Jersey, you will know what we mean.

The meet is certainly about all of that, don’t doubt it, but there’s more… a whole lot more. That whole lot more is about purpose: ideas, initiatives and enterprise directed not only towards ourselves and our own but for the betterment of the world out there. This is the time to give back solidly.

Help a person, help a village, change a system, directly when you can. Go home knowing that you have left your mark somewhere, indelibly, as a TNMCite.

With the grace of God, the brilliance of our teachers at TNMC and the blessings of our parents, each one of us is solidly positioned in our careers. TNMC made us who we are. All those hours invested in the wards, ORs and clinics made us, most from ordinary if not humble beginnings, into who we are today.

If TNMC is about the past, it is also about the present and the future: our future and the future of our children, right here, perhaps aspiring or training to be doctors. We TNMCites now live in America, and we must participate in the events of change. We are located all over the United States, and together we can partner with the voices of change in health care.

Proud TNMCites all, we are a fraternity. We are also family, and we look out for each other and our children, no questions asked. If, God forbid, one should stumble, we should have an entire community to break the fall. That is what TNMC USA is about.