I just found out my friend Anthony from college was involved in an amazing car crash on his way to Disneyland to celebrate his birthday. Thankfully, he’s okay, though his car looks like it’s on its way to the great junkyard in the sky.
Anthony, glad you’re safe and I hope the guy who did this […]
Archive for June, 2006
Now that the academic year is ending, things have really picked up both at work and at home. With all the chief residents having graduated, I’ve been on call frequently but have the operative cases to show for it. Even my weekend was stuffed with stuff to do. To wit:
On Friday I was […]
I am by nature a very tense person. I don’t tend to yell and scream at anyone, and I dislike losing my temper. I’m not one of those old-school surgeons who stomps his feet and lays into people when they make a mistake or say something I don’t like. When I’m mad, I typically complain […]
Today I ran into a friend and fellow resident whom I haven’t seen since last summer, and she revealed that she reads this not-a-blog. And now people who have absolutely no relationship to me whatsoever on Friendster are showing up as viewing my profile. So either my writings are more popular than I thought, or […]
I’ve survived my first night on as a chief resident. Actually, it wasn’t half bad. I took a patient to the OR in the morning for perforated bowel, then followed that with a trauma case where I repaired a hole in the inferior vena cava. In the evening I ligated a radial artery branch that […]
The day was *supposed* to be easy. No scheduled surgeries, just morning conferences. I was planning on getting some work done. ‘Twas not to be. While rounding at 6:30 AM, I got called into the OR to help operate on one of the many traumas that came in last night (which really bogged down the […]
Yesterday I had the six-month review of my performance, and apparently I’m doing fine. I’ve fulfilled all the requirements for promotion and my clinical and surgical skills have progressed in the eyes of the faculty. While this is definitely good news, it also means that in just a couple weeks, I will be essentially a […]
My folks came down this past Friday for the weekend and an early Father’s day dinner, since I’m on call next Saturday and can’t entertain them then. They brought little Franklin, who is less than 3 months old yet has sprouted like a weed. He looks more like a real dog every day, and as […]
Since I’m on call tomorrow, I have to try to clean my house tonight for my parents’ arrival on Friday. I’m looking forward to seeing how little Franklin (the hamster puppy) has grown in the past few weeks, since according to my mom he’s had quite the growth spurt. While I love having my parents […]
Despite having a fun time plucking out a bullet out of some guy’s groin last night, the rest of my call sucked. Throughout the evening I was paged every half hour, which really makes it hard to sleep. And the consults - painful. A 4 AM consult on a patient who was injured at 8 […]
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