title: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief.
abstract: It was in the mid-nineties when a senior colleague of mine, Dr. Bojan Biocina, introduced me to something called "OpenHeart-L" on The Heart Surgery Forum website. Suddenly, a whole new world appeared in front of me! The possibility to communicate with colleagues from all around the globe was amazing. And not only that-one could ask anything, and there was always someone who had an answer, gave a piece of advice…what to do, what to avoid...it was magic! The person responsible for this whole idea of sharing information and interactive communication was Mark Levinson. At that time I was more a lurker than a poster, eagerly waiting for discussions to develop and learning from other people's posts.
authors.affiliation: Dubrava University Hospital, Department of Cardiac and Transplant Surgery, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rudez
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002309:Cardiology; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans