Does anybody know what the significance of the ACEP logo is? The one at the upper left of the web site with the grid of 63 squares.
http://www.acep.org/
http://www.acep.org/
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Supposed to be EKG paper? Personally I think the logo is rather drab and unimaginative. Gee an EKG tracing for a medical organization, how original.
That's a great question I had always been too sheepish to ask.
I have made up my own symbolic story behind the emblem. It seems to me like a grid or net that is missing a piece symbolizing the gap in healthcare EM is supposed to fill.
Does anybody have a real answer?
I have made up my own symbolic story behind the emblem. It seems to me like a grid or net that is missing a piece symbolizing the gap in healthcare EM is supposed to fill.
Does anybody have a real answer?
That was the first thing I thought about!! Great minds, I say.
I vaguely remember an ACEP guy doing a Grand Rounds where he said that when they originally made the logo they wanted "something missing." It has to do with filling in the blanks or filling in one's educations or something like that.
That grid represents your income, and the missing block is your annual contribution to ACEP...
Pretty close. I read the real story in Brian Zink's history of EM: Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime. http://secure2.acep.org/bookstore/p-10258-anyone-anything-anytime-a-history-of-emergency-medicine.aspx
Here's an exerpt from page 88 with my identification of the players in parentheses:
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"Wiegenstein (first ACEP president) said "I don't want any snakes. I want something really professional, real sharp looking." Auer (executive director of Michigan State Medical Society, the group that supported the birth of ACEP) had a son, Art, who was in his twenties and had some experience with design. He enlisted his help to work on the logo. Art Auer created a square made up of 56 smaller squares. All were dark except a "missing" white square in the middle of the third row. This represented ACEP - what was missing in American medicine. The missing square was then turned 90 degrees to become a diamond, which dotted the 'i' in 'American' on the logo. Herbert Auer presented the design to Wiegenstein who liked it very much. Later, Herb (Auer) confessed to Wiegenstein that his son had done the logo. Within 2 years, Art Auer would become the executive director of ACEP.
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This is a great book on the fascinating development of our specialty. I recommend it.
Take care,
Jeff
AWESOME!!! hilarious
