Kudos, please
The Rivrdog and Rivrwife are pleased to announce that the Rivrdaughter has achieved her dream:
The Oregon Health and Sciences University has offered employment as a Resident Physician in the Emergency Department to the Rivrdaughter. If you get shot, stabbed or very sick in Portland after 6-15, and need the services of a Level One Trauma Unit, she will be among those waiting for the meat wagon to bring your damaged ass in.
OHSU was her first choice, and she was OHSU's first choice. Graduation is 6-3-08, but today was Match Day, and at 10:00 am on the Left Coast, and other times all over the nation to match the exact second, every 4th-year Medical Student in the country found out where their Residency will be, or, if in the lower quadrant of their class, they found out that no one wants them and now they have to scramble.
But, for the Rivrdaughter, all that is behind her. I've been trying to tell her for months that she was a shoo-in, because I had insider info, but she refused to believe me, and now is hiding from my "Told Ya So" by engaging in a low-class pub crawl to celebrate. At last report, those 50 fledgling physicians were at Kell's Irish Pub, doing shots and Guinness. That means that there were 58 who were crying in their beer somewhere more private.
I will pass along any of your kudos, which are well-deserved (since 1995). If you followed Doc Russia's blog a few years back, you KNOW how hard it is for this specialty to even succeed, let alone get their first choice of a prestigious hospital.
Needless to say, I was on the road when this news came to my cell phone, and I almost burst out of the cab with pride.
The Rivrdaughter will be the SIXTH of my family line to have a photo gracing the graduation wall of OHSU, but the FIRST to practice medicine there.
I never made it past Level One EMT, but she has now gone the whole route.
Splice the Mainbrace!
Congratulations on a job well done!
Posted by: Aaron Neal | March 20, 2008 at 18:41
Congratulations to your daughter.
Posted by: Morenuancedthanyou | March 22, 2008 at 17:46
'Dog,
I just poured a dram of that Scotch we shared, in celebration.
Salute!
Jim
Sloop New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim | March 22, 2008 at 20:03
Congrats and well done, Sir!!!
Best of luck to your daughter!!
Stu Clark
Posted by: Stu CLark | March 25, 2008 at 15:46