Family style Italian place in Gorham NH

Saladino’s Italian restaurant
152 Main St.
Gorham, NH 603 466 2520

Great pasta and salads!

Currie K hair – Korean cut

Wanna look like a Korean pop star?
Currie K hair in Ktown
213 382 3040
3832 Wilshire Blvd#205
LA, CA

$1 hand rolls before 6pm in SoCal

Restaurant Yoshino
14181 Newport Ave
Tustin, CA
714 730 3888

Athens restaurants – don’t get your hopes up

In general they were very disappointing. I really think the best food in Greece is just the basic stuff grilled meats, tzaziki, pita, etc. We tried one “gourmet” place that was really more gourmet in price than in quality.

If you just want the best black fish soup you ever had (made from cuttlefish ink) try it at
Varouklo www.varoulko.gr.
Don’t order anything else on the menu especially not the fish dishes which it is supposedly famous for but we found it to be rubbery and not that good.

good place for souvenirs in Santorini

Amforeas Silver Workshop of Museum Copies in Fira
2286023232
www.Greekartcenter.com
They have these GREAT handpainted pottery plates and vessels for holding olive oil. The brand I liked the most are made by someone who calls herself “The Centaur” and lives in Athens and is a friend of the owner.

back from greece!

Good to be back home!

Btw, www.millhouses.gr is like the best hotel I’ve stayed at

Food Santorini

Mythos Taverna – best place we ate in Greece
Pirgos – Santorini
+302286032444
open all year round
referred by Antonis from Art Space
best dishes: Eggplant dip, anything with Feta cheese, grilled fish, fried calamari, kebab

Going to Greece and maybe Mexico

Good news, Jane and I are going to Greece, Athens and Santorini in 2 weeks! whoo hoo

http://millhouses.gr/Photos.asp

Now arranging a Mexico trip with my parents

Gorham pics

Of course, a couple months late, pics of northern NH. Beautiful place . . . considering its in the boonies

So boonies here, they can’t even spell Hillbilly right

On the border with Maine at sunset, its not the ocean but ain’t it beautiful?

Mt Washington . . . I climbed that sucker . . . in my car :)

Gorham, not much there but at least its green and pretty.

Judgement

Just woke up from a fun night on Thursday my last call night on Surgery. Had a full day in the OR, still working on tying those knots under Dr. Liu’s watchful eye. Made it to Dr Z’s guest lecturer talk by Ross Jaffe, another one of those guys that one could perceive to “have it all”. He’s an MD/MBA, was an internist and founded Versant Ventures which now has $1B under management (with 11 other GPs, this means he probably pulls in $1mil a year in salary plus 2% carry so probably gets a payday of $50-70mil every 10 yrs). Dr. Jaffe said something that really resonated with me. He said that people ultimately get paid for 3 things 1) Skills 2) Analysis 3) Judgement of which judgement is the most important thing (and what he iterated to me that should be a reason for me to pursue residency instead of stopping at the intern year.

As I left with those words for my last call night at DHMC, I saw again how judgement makes a big difference in the ED. A 30yo guy who was partially ejected in an MVC came in with what turned out to be a really bad laceration in his spleen and was bleeding to death in his belly. We took him to the OR and as soon as we opened his fascia, he started gushing blood out of his abdomen. We ended up sucking 4L of blood out but fortunately found the lac in his splenic and short gastric arteries and tied them off (I hope he makes it). The other fortunate thing was that Dr. Burchard (one of the best teachers I’ve met here incidentally) was on call and was able to make the right judgement to take him to the OR immediately after the FAST scan (ultrasound) of his belly showed fluid for immediate exlap. In this age of testing and data overload, another physician may have wanted to waste precious minutes by taking him to CT scan risking the possibility that he would bleed out.

I guess the moral of the story is really that in an age where “evidence based medicine”, hard sciences and technology seem to rule the day, the truth is that the soft squishy qualities like good judgement, common sense and deciphering what is important and relevant are MORE not less important.