Grand Rounds

Thank you, Kate, for that really nice introduction. I don’t think anyone but my mom has ever said such kind things about me, and she only says them when she’s drunk. I’m kidding! She stopped drinking a couple days ago. I’m sorry I’m late and that I kept you waiting. I know very well you all have a lot of work to do.

But it’s really neat to be here, having grown up at UCSF as a resident and now as a fellow. I used to fall asleep in those same seats during lectures just like this one. That is to say, I won’t hold it against you, residents, if you fall asleep this morning. Though I find myself becoming curmudgeonly about work-hour revisions and glorifying the good old bad old days of training when we still worked thirty-six hours straight compared to your twelve. OK, twenty . . . but still . . .