Done

In 1999 I started taking premed classes. This morning, 13 years later, I just got home from the last shift of my residency. Feels pretty damn good to be finished.

One... more...shift...

The overnight shift tonight will be the last shift of my entire residency. Can hardly believe it....

Around the Bay Area: Pulgas Water Temple

Around the Bay Area: Moon over the avenue

Thought experiment

If your 85-year-old grandfather came to the emergency room at 9:00 pm, unable to swallow and not having been able to eat or drink anything for the past two days, would you want him to be admitted to the hospital?

Around the Bay Area: Ohlone Way

Professional satisfaction

Every so often a case in the ER is the perfect balance of a pleasant patient who is genuinely interested in their own disease process, wants you to teach them more, and for whom you can provide effective treatment. Got two of those in a row the other night and left work feeling like a doctor.

Around the Bay Area: Sunrise after night shift

Ziba's first piano lession

Around the Bay Area: Treasure Island Administration Building

Isn't that a little personal?

Life in emergency medicine can be a little strange sometimes. I just checked the schedule for our department conference this week. Looks like the highlight will be the Anorectal Small Group Discussion. I guess we'd better be sure to wear clean underwear....

Around the Bay Area: Oaktown Spice Shop

(http://oaktownspiceshop.com/)

Targeted

While planning for the upcoming trip with Mom-Bob to Poland and Germany, I was searching for a way to get from Krakow to Lübeck by train. Today I get a banner ad on my Sudoku website promising best prices on rail tickets from Krakow to Lübeck. Helpful, annoying, or creepy?

Ghanaian connection

Many traditional Ghanaian names are based on gender and the day of the week that you were born. For example, Kofi Annan's first name indicates that he was a boy born on a Friday. The other night in the ER I took care of a little girl whose day name is the same as the wife's, and whose brother's was the same as mine. Mom was delighted to find out that we had gotten engaged in Ghana while Dr. N was working there.

Around the Bay Area: Lucky Alley

On the radio again

Yesterday I had radio in the car tuned to the local classical station and I just had to smile, remembering my post from the other day. What was playing? That old warhorse, the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto....

Around the Bay Area: Old and new