06-FEB-A-1
BEGIN IN
SANTA ROSA
IN GRAND ROUNDS WITH KEVIN BERGMAN TO RETURN FOR RE-ENTRY FROM
PHILIPPINES
- 1. Index to
Feb-A-series from
Santa Rosa
to Philippine Re-Entry
- 2. North Bay visit to Santa Rosa with Kevin Bergman and
Grand Rounds for Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency program in Sonoma County
Wine Country; tour north California to Colonel Armstrong Redwood groves and
Russian River, then group dinner at the Annapurna Restaurant in Santa Rosa and
return arrival at Harkens’ house in Walnut Creek.
- 3. Visit with Harkens, Grand Rounds and conferences at
UCSF
Hyland
Hospital in
Alameda
County, Adler Fellows Opera and return
from Chez Harken and the Jaguar wheels of
Walnut Creek
in and around
East
Bay.
- 4.
Rashid Abdu’s
review of “Out of Assa” after I had read his book “Yemeni Boy”
- 5. The events of
my Re-Entry Week with big news of a scary transition confronting Virginia in
Iowa and the ambivalence of a request for support in a new independence project
as I try to get back in to the past-due processes of ELDP and GWU commitments.
- 6. ELDP and Comp Team meetings at Ashburn, with the only
blizzard of ’06 causing me to bunk down at Dulles in Candlewood Suites,
Sterling VA before my takeoff to DesMoines via snowy DCA.
- 7. Allen
Mellicor’s valedictory assessment of the mission with the totals achieved in the two major venues, hoping for next
year’s repeat experience
.
- 8. The letter of nomination submitted by Dr. Juan Montero of Norfolk to the
American College of Surgeons proposing me as recipient of the ACS Volunteerism
in Surgery Award
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