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  • Great day in Medicine!

    Posted on June 5th, 2008 dabao No comments

    Man, what a great day. It started as normal, actually a little later than normal because I got out of bed late which made me preround on my patient late which subsequently made me late to morning report. As I sheepishly slinked into my seat, I beat myself up in my mind for being late, what would my program director think of this guy that’s always late? I thought to myself. Gave a nice presentation on Cdiff colitis with my team and then retired to the doc’s lounge to “read” and just sit around. Then around 1-2 got a page from the GME office that I had a package. It turns out that one of my patients, a sweet old lady who had a TIA and some hyperlipidemia owns a vineyard down in Carmel and actually SENT ME A BOTTLE OF CABERNET from the vineyard with a little card directed to “Dr. Eugene Hsu”. After celebrating a bit and telling my senior resident M about it, I happened to ask M to fill out a little evaluation card for me to give back to Dartmouth. On it, I didn’t expect to find a comment about how one of my patients actually said to M that she wanted me as her primary care doctor. It was literally one of the best compliments I have ever received in my life! It really made me feel good about myself better than any compliment, score on a test or feedback in med school. Then to top things off, at the end of the day around 6-7pm, I still hadn’t admitted any patients despite lolling around all day and I decided to “stick around for one more patient” despite my senior resident telling me I could leave and that “it wasn’t worth it” to see this last patient. It turns out this patient had some lower abdominal pain associated with filling of her bladder and needed to go constantly ever 10 minutes to relieve the pain and I was able to come up with a diagnosis (interstitial cystitis) that fit her clinical findings PERFECTLY and presented the perfect assessment and plan to my attending who agreed with me and told me the H+P was “great”. It all went so well, I felt so confident and on top of my game. Anyway, I left the hospital whistling and singing. Later, J told me that this was a lesson in faith, patience, interdependence. Whatever it was, for the first time in a while I think I know what I’m doing . . . and I’m doing it WELL!

  • Excited!

    Posted on June 2nd, 2008 dabao No comments

    Wow, its amazing, I just had dinner with my buddy Dan who is an MD/MBA and inventor of medical devices. Man, that stuff is so exciting. It makes me excited just thinking about doing that stuff. Anyway, hopefully I can work on that stuff when I get to Tuck . . . can’t wait, can’t wait, can’t wait

  • Good sushi place in Alameda

    Posted on June 2nd, 2008 dabao No comments

    Small homey sushi place in downtown Alameda. Literally run by a mom who’s the waitress and a pop who’s the sushi chef and seats 12 people in the whole place. Very good sashimi

    1428 Park St.
    Alameda, CA 94501
    510 865 7141