Category: Work
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More Mercy
Hello from Restriction of Movement (ROM) status! Since SARS-CoV-2 decided to show up on Day 16 of the mission (boo!), our leaders not only moved quickly to take care of the patients/close contacts, they also decided to minimize the hazards of close quarters shipboard living by sending most of us to hotels. Today is Day…
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Scandinavian Summer, Days 8-11: Uppsala
Uppsala is a beautiful university town about an hour north of Stockholm. The whole reason that the Scandinavian Summer trip occurred is that I had a poster accepted to an international medical conference. Since I was traveling, I thought I’d add some vacation time. I didn’t think SMS would come because of his lack of…
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Chicago COSM
Millennium Park, Chicago On Thursday, I left Mountain View for the COSM 2016 meeting in Chicago. I had a research poster selected for display so I got to go to the meeting. I had never been to COSM before. It’s smaller than the Academy meeting in the Fall and a little more social. Overall, I…
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Nashville Weekend
View from the Acme Rooftop Last week, I took business trip to Nashville to attend a two-day course at Vanderbilt. The course was exceptional- great faculty, excellent temporal bone lab component and a fun evening social event at the end of day one. If you’re ever looking for excellent courses that are very reasonably priced,…
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Nashville Notes
The theme of this blog sometimes I think… Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to go to the Temporal Bone Dissection Course at Vanderbilt University. The course program was amazing and I feel really lucky that I got to go. Actually, I feel lucky that I found it online and all the stars aligned…
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Working for the Weekend!
Ok, maybe Tuesday is a liiiii-tle too early to be singing that song, but I am so excited for my parents to get into town. We have the best itinerary planned. I’m also very excited because I am getting a lot done at work. Last night, I finished a paper on portable vestibular evaluation devices…
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Work is the time between vacations
I really like my job. Nerdy, but true. It was a great week at work because in addition to two (!) OR days, a big project is finally getting off the ground and I’m really excited. We have a home sleep study project that a contract was finally approved for and in two days, I’ve…
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O’Hare Area Wasteland
Ok, the O’Hare area is fine. It’s just that it still looked and felt like Winter and I was there for my oral boards. Meanwhile in Japan, the sakura were around for about three days according to people who were here. Then it rained and the blossoms fell off. So ephemeral…talk amongst yourselves as I…
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Approaching the finish line!
Four more days until I travel back to the US to start the long-ish journey to my 6 April oral board certification exam. Sagoy! I’m going to stay in the LA area for a few days on an “extended layover” which a totally awesome concept since I get to see SMS. On April 1 afternoon,…
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Update from Japan!
Hey-o! What is up? Not too much is happening here in Japan. Clinic and OR continue to go well although still maintaining the slow pace of a non-MTF (military treatment facility, aka a big hospital). Clinic is a funny mix between patients who really need an ENT and patients that need a shrink. Kidding! Although…
Portmanteau Suitcase 