This month, our “Member Profile” column features a heartwarming story about two CAP members and their remarkable friendship. Dr. Colleen Coleman has been a CAP member since 2006, and Dr. Brian Dunn has been a CAP member since 2004.

In May of 2015, Dr. Shazia Hyder was planning a vacation from her job at the Veterans Administration. It did not turn out as she expected. “Before I left, I saw my primary care doctor to get a screening mammogram, all the usual things you do after you’ve turned 40,” Dr. Hyder explains.

Dr. Ted Mazer, an otolaryngologist in San Diego and president-elect of the California Medical Association, recently talked to The San Diego Union-Tribune about the choices facing the new administration in Washington.

Some OB/GYNs deliver their first baby in a brightly lit, sterile operating room of a big city. Dr. Raleigh Unterseher delivered his to a proud mama cow in a barn in Milton-Freewater, Oregon.

Dr. Gregory Buncke's passion for medicine started in his family’s garage. His father, Harry, now considered the “Father of Microsurgery,” had set up a lab there.