[Magdalen] medical terminology

[ROGER STOKES]

It's now Vidant Medical Center.  Incidentally I ghought of you the othyer day when I was in Charlotte behind a car with an NC plate that read UTVOLSFAN.  Expecting it to say LADYVOLS was probably too much. :-)

Roger



________________________________
 From: Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org> 
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] medical terminology
 

I was a traveler at Pitt Memorial in Greenville, NC one July/August. Pitt
(which now has some other name, I forget what) is the teaching hospital for
ECU's medical school and is not one of the top tier teaching hospitals. We
nurses openly wondered how some of the new interns and residents got INTO
medical school, let alone out. There was one on our unit that apparently
washed out of the program within six weeks and at least one other who was
on shaky ground; the rest seemed pretty much okay once they got their feet
under them. OTOH, I encountered a couple of residents who were absolute
stars. I worked in several other teaching hospitals but no others quite
like Pitt. University of Cincinnati gets a much higher caliber of
intern/resident and I was pretty impressed by most of the ones I met there.
One is now the ENT who takes care of my son Sam, who has a fairly
complicated ENT history. She is a former Lady Vol basketball player from
Oneida, TN, and I was a great fan of hers when she was playing.  The first
time I encountered her at UC was in the elevator. I was sick as hell with
some kind of upper respiratory crud and when I looked at her, thought I
recognized her, and then looked at her name tag, I really wanted to say, "I
loved you as a Lady Vol, would you mind looking at my throat?" but I didn't.