"Grand rounds"

I know, the name is misleading. No one rounds or goes round or turns or spins or anything on "grand rounds". It's a lecture.

But a good one - at least today. The way Americans give talks is something I dearly missed over in the motherland. The added comfort of a voluptuous catered meal is an added bonus, but this would almost have been worth listening to without food! I can see that screening for colorectal cancer is not everybody's first choice to listen to over lunch but all I can say is it was informative, interesting and even halfway pertinent to my doctoral thesis on gastrointestinal tumors.

And the reason I had time to go there today was that things are extremely quiet. As blogged before, the attending left very early for Florida today and we actually had no consults before rounds. We got hit with one shortly after rounds, but when the dream-team dynamic duo of Jenn and Justin went to work that one up they were done inside of 20 minutes and caught the attending before he could leave for the airport and even though we were called with the consult at around 11:15 I was able to make it to grand rounds at noon.

Jenn is about to do a kidney biopsy at 1:30pm, I'll meet her in the patient's room. And this time around I was smart enough not to assume I'd do the biopsy myself nor did I even ask her about it ;D .

Blog to you later.