Broken Hearts,The Da Vinci Code, and Vegas Baby Vegas
Once again I'm off the inpatient hospital service and back on outpatient medicine. So now I get more time to muse about the world around me outside of medicine.

In medical school they forget to tell you that when you graduate you become your own family's unoffical primary care physican. My gf's dad recently underwent major heart surgery and of course they mention I'm a physician too so the surgeon emails me and I'm now the health advocate for my gf's dad. At the beginning of July my own uncle who had end stage renal disease, heart disease, and diabetes passed away from a massive heart attack. My cousins were in shock and I had to make a couple of phone calls and of course explain everything. It's tough sometimes when you're both the family member and a health care provider. You don't want to be the ass-hat micromanger of your family members health because you respect other physicans clinical judgement.

I've also been reading more non-medical books lately. The last novel I read was Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. The book is a very absorbing thriller. I heard his earlier book Demons and Angels is just as acclaimed. This sure beats reading articles from JAMA .

I'm still trying to recover from the weekend at Vegas. . . I hung out with my highschool buddy maverick and co. at his bachleor party. I only got 6 hrs sleep total and had a blast. However, getting older I do realise you can have too much "fun". I also had a chance to hang out with my kuya and his family. The poor bastage has 4 mestiza daughters. He got hit hard with the players curse. To make him feel better I got him a Dave Chapple stand-up DVD and some baby back ribs. "All daddy ever wanted was the big piece of chicken"-Chris Rock. In this case some ribs.