But it all starts with content.

In 1996, Bill Gates wrote an essay entitled “Content Is King.” The lessons from that now-25-year-old treatise are still true today. Our content is the heart of ACEP Now. Pearls from the Medical Literature, Medicolegal Mind, Forensic Facts, Kids Korner, Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine—these columns are among my personal favorites to read every month when the magazine hits my mailbox. In a rapidly evolving profession, it is impossible to keep up with the latest research and with the best tricks of the trade. Our columnists make that task possible for me.

As much as I love to learn from my colleagues and feel the glossy pages under my fingers, a print magazine is simply a delivery mechanism for content. My goal is to get ACEP Now in front of the eyes (and ears) of more and more emergency physicians in their preferred medium. We should have a more multimedia-rich experience to ACEP Now—podcasts, videos, maybe one day virtual reality–based content to help hone our technical skills.

ACEP Now is for you, the emergency physician, to educate you, to inspire you, and to change the world for the better. To that effect, I want us to look at emergency medicine more globally, pulling stories and learning from across the continents. Do you remember the fascinating piece in the February issue about Wade Wernecke, MD, FACEP, FAAFP, detailing his near-death experiences while volunteering in Asia? Incredible stories like that are what make our specialty the most exciting in all the house of medicine.

During our daily grind, we experience the greatest of human stories. Our oaths forbid us from sharing many of the details we see or hear about the lives of the patients for whom we care, but when we can, we should share these revelations with one another in these pages. So please, bring your stories forward and, above all else, share the knowledge you have gleaned with other emergency physicians.

To conclude, I’d like to reflect on a phrase that former Medical Editor in Chief Kevin Klauer, DO, EJD, FACEP, wrote in his May 2019 farewell article for ACEP Now, that “opportunity often finds you when you’re ready but not, necessarily, when you’re looking for it.” I certainly was not looking for this assignment, but I know that I am ready to experience the journey upon which we are about to embark.