Preparation for Transatlantic Voyage
10 November 2007- Saturday
N.B. Am going to try to do a blog of my transatlantic cruise and get caught up on preceding trips. France was too hectic to get anything done- (bus trips don't leave a lot of time) so thought Greece would be easier, but got discouraged when 3 days of typing disappeared into cyberspace beofre I could upload them. Hope wordpad doesn't let me down again
The usual scramble to get things done before an overseas trip was compounded by 2 no shows for the Friday afternoon didactic sessions with the students in roataion 2- Their last day on surgery. Ken (vascular surgeon of almost my genre who trained under Emerick Szilagyi- one of the founders of vascular surgery) did the cardiac stuff and I did 2 hours of urology- that was after Kathryn taking some time to give her critique on her OSCE on how to break bad news. Then it was quick trip to the base to make sure I have enough thyroid for the 3 weeks I'll be gone. Managed to miss my eye appointment because of the lectures so I'll probably go blind on the trip.
Met with Tom (4th year student ER wannabe) to brief the house sitting job and discuss the upstairs shower being plugged, igniting the fireplace in the trophy room and the mysterious Brink's alarm- may be related to the giant oppossum he caught in the headlights of his car when he came over. Saturday was a blur of deciding what to pack, making Christmas flight arrangements, watching the Bucks lose their number one standing and several phone calls but at nidnight decided to call it quits.
Afterthought: Ken's father was a med student in the 30's (pre antibiotic era) and his notebook listed over a dozen signs of impending death- our students are learning how to break bad news. I guess there has been a lot of changes in medicine.
N.B. Am going to try to do a blog of my transatlantic cruise and get caught up on preceding trips. France was too hectic to get anything done- (bus trips don't leave a lot of time) so thought Greece would be easier, but got discouraged when 3 days of typing disappeared into cyberspace beofre I could upload them. Hope wordpad doesn't let me down again
The usual scramble to get things done before an overseas trip was compounded by 2 no shows for the Friday afternoon didactic sessions with the students in roataion 2- Their last day on surgery. Ken (vascular surgeon of almost my genre who trained under Emerick Szilagyi- one of the founders of vascular surgery) did the cardiac stuff and I did 2 hours of urology- that was after Kathryn taking some time to give her critique on her OSCE on how to break bad news. Then it was quick trip to the base to make sure I have enough thyroid for the 3 weeks I'll be gone. Managed to miss my eye appointment because of the lectures so I'll probably go blind on the trip.
Met with Tom (4th year student ER wannabe) to brief the house sitting job and discuss the upstairs shower being plugged, igniting the fireplace in the trophy room and the mysterious Brink's alarm- may be related to the giant oppossum he caught in the headlights of his car when he came over. Saturday was a blur of deciding what to pack, making Christmas flight arrangements, watching the Bucks lose their number one standing and several phone calls but at nidnight decided to call it quits.
Afterthought: Ken's father was a med student in the 30's (pre antibiotic era) and his notebook listed over a dozen signs of impending death- our students are learning how to break bad news. I guess there has been a lot of changes in medicine.
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