Two weeks down...

I finished my first two weeks in Vascular surgery today. Tomorrow I go into a new hospital, with a new team, and a new rotation in cardiothoracic. I'm probably going to miss my old team, I had gotten to know them really well, and especially enjoyed taking care of our patients. I'm sad to say that we lost one of them this past weekend. He developed a perforated colon due to a CMV virus invection, and despite surgery wasn't able to pull through. I wasn't there when he passed, and he will be missed I'm sure. It's a natural part of medicine I suppose. Taking care of people when you can, and helping out even when you can't. Such is life.

I get to start the new week with a full belly though. My parents took me out to dinner tonight with some good friends of ours, the McMillans. We went to a little steakhouse here in Houston that's been open since the 1930s. Very cozy place with a very well landscaped outdoors area. If it wasn't so expensive I'd like to go back again sometime. It was pricey, but the food and everything was amazing, and I guess that's what parents are good for!

As usual, the morning will come calling awfully early, so it's time for sleep for me.