Across the globe.

Canadian Family Physician focuses on a special theme in this issue: poverty and human development. This month, we share this theme with more than 200 journals around the world. Two College members have seen our world as a spinning blue, green, and white orb. As astronauts, Dr Robert Thirsk and Dr Dave Williams have experienced this particular view of our home planet. Although that type of worldview is not possible for most of us, a global perspective is one which Canadian family physicians have had and have acted on for many years. In this column I want to tell you about some contributions our members have made to global development.