Another great day here at AAIM. Harvard’s own Dr. Sanjiv Chopra kicked it off with an inspiring and, in one case, heart rending tale of the various triumphs of medicine from the distant and recent past. He also offered some very interesting projections into the future, which ranged from the fairly non-controversial increase in the use of ‘personalized medicine’ to the somewhat more fanciful ‘exercise pill’ to the downright unlikely ‘free healthcare in America’ within the next 50 years. He was a wonderful speaker – and I’m not just saying that because of the free book. Dr. Elyssa Del Valle, fresh from her victory over Serena Williams, brought a lot of interesting studies about liver fibrosis and cirrhosis without the use of biopsy. Kevin Glasgow and Iraida Labra from MunichRe talked about interesting cases of life insurance fraud. If you had asked what I expected to see at AAIM this year “fake Hatian funeral” would not have been among them. At lunch it was an honor to see the esteemed doctors Mackenzie, Titcomb and Clark receive the degree of Fellow. The afternoon session brought us Dr. Faisal Merchant who discussed many interesting aspects of syncope (hint for prospective JIM authors: look at his slides – plenty of great fodder for articles there). Speaking of new authors, my talk with Ross Mackenzie brought in a cadre of enthusiastic prospective authors whom I hope will soon flood Ross’ inbox with manuscripts. Rounding it out, I attended Cliff Titcomb’s excellent talk about practical mortality analysis. I especially appreciated his treatment of Markov models and will consider expanding our treatment of that in the Basic Mortality Course in the future.