Laser Partner - Clinixperience - All Volumes

January 2003

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Dear Readers and Friends of Laser Medicine,

Laser Partner has entered the fifth year of its existence. This gives us the right to declare that we have passed all "teething troubles", however there is no time to rest on our laurels. Quite the reverse, we are a magazine which has made a name for itself, having its circle of regular readers and subscribers and, hopefully, going to gain new ones. Fruitful co-laboration of Laser Partner with Czech Society for the Use of Laser in Medicine (a branch of the Czech Medical Society) as well as scientific patronage of European Medical Laser Association have contributed to its quality.

The orientation of our magazine has closely predetermined its contents. Laser medicine is a highly interesting interdisciplinary branch, reaching from a country GP`s office up to a unique highly specialized clinical center. Combination of practical medicine with high tech has its attraction, the limits of cognition opening very fast. Therefore it is not easy to satisfy and attract everyone. Even though, Laser Partner has accepted the challenge in order to continue in bringing its readers novelties of laser medicine, interesting methods and case histories, specialization overviews, comparative studies, theoretical and practical issues of laser medicine etc.

I hope we will manage to do well, for this is actually the goal of the entire editorial board, the work of which I highly appreciate. However, this cannot be achieved on our own. Stay "tuned" for the future, read us, write us, comment us, keep your fingers crossed for us ...

Thank You

Editor in Chief

Premysl Fryda

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Dear Colleagues,

As President of International Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine and Chairman of the Organising Committee of the 14th World Congress of ISLSM in Chennai, India, it is an honour and previlege to pen these lines of introduction to "Laser Partner" which has specially brought out its edition for the participants of the congress. This World Congress is a milestone meeting of the New Mellinium. This conference deals with the application of Laser in 18 different specialities. I am confident delegates will drive benifit by the scientific content

Prof. Dr. B. Krishna Rau

Chairman of ISSLM

Dear Colleagues,

Today you have in your hands a journal devoted to laser techniques in medicine. We are convinced that it will graduate into an interesting periodical which will be able to contribute to exchange of experience between individual offices, cliniques and colleagues, as well as to conveyance of news in our branch. On behalf of the whole of the Committee of the Czech Society for the Use of Laser in Medicine I wish this periodical a long and fruitful life.

Ass. Prof. Ladislav Horak, M.D.

Chairman of the Czech Society

for the Use of Laser in Medicine

Dear Colleagues,

Having been asked by LASER PARTNER journal, I am sitting at my computer in order to put down a few lines for its editorial. On this occasion I recall my first laser, my first therapeutic attempts with the unit as well as my delight when I found out that it really works! And thus I had started gaining my first experience, knowledge, contacting other colleagues …

And I have always made myself sure about one non-changing truth, that there is never enough information. Therefore I would like to thank those, who took up the work on the project of this journal, for doing so. Only those of you, who had ever done such an imprudence, are able to appreciate all the work and efforts behind (just imagine persuading authors for their papers!). I want to wish them to keep this imprudence in their minds and let them never loose it.

Today you have in your hands a journal devoted to laser techniques in medicine. We are convinced that it will graduate into an interesting periodical which will be able to contribute to exchange of experience between individual offices, cliniques and colleagues, as well as to conveyance of news in our branch. For the journal, our pray is let it bring you more and more new information so that you can always say to yourselves after having read it: „Oh my, I have not known that.“ And for us, who have undertaken to contribute an article from time to time, our papers be new indeed.

Ass. Prof. Leos Navratil, M.D.

Chairman of the Radiobiological Society