Top 10 Movies

I was thinking about this after watching King Kong. Making a top 10 list of movies is difficult, especially for me, who doesn't own any movies and or watch movies more than once. I also have a terrible time thinking of movies off the top of my head. So here's a go, and maybe my readers can help me out...

1. Forrest Gump
2. The Matrix
3. Fight Club
4. Batman Begins
5. Schindler's List
6. Momento
7. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
8. Return of the Jedi
9. King Kong (maybe because I just watched it)
10. Gladiator

And I have to add some honorable mentions...

11. Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail
12. Airplane
13. Superman
14. Return of the King
15. Raiders of the Lost Ark
16. Vanilla Sky
17. Winged Migration
18. Independence Day
19. Amadeus
20. Shawshank Redemption

I tend to have a theme of psychological "life is not what is seems" type movies.

Happy New Year

As mentioned earlier, the Air Force assigned me to just become a General Medical Officer (GMO), which will most likely be a position as Flight Surgeon. This isn't related to surgery at all, but is more of an occupational health and primary care like job. It's not a bad job. Good hours, good patients.
So I'm withdrawing my anesthesiology applications, which will free up my interview schedule some. I'm hoping I'll get to reapply for anesthesia in the next few years, but most likely I'll finish my Air Force commitment and then reapply, which will be 4 years down the road.

Military match is done. I didn't get assigned to specialize in anesthesia. I'll be doing a civilian transitional/prelim medicine year instead.

Here a photo from my Treo 650 phone

Here's my family up at Lake Tahoe:

Interview Schedule

So for the most part, all of the invitations for interviews have been sent out. I'm still on the waiting list at a few places, so a couple more interviews could be added later. Otherwise, this is pretty much my final schedule:

UC Irvine Preliminary Medicine Year, CA, Nov 14
Harbor-UCLA Anesthesia, Nov 15
U. Southern California Anesthesia, LA, Nov 16
Loma Linda U Anesthesia, Dec 1
Kettering MC Transitional Year, Dayton, OH, Dec 5
Ohio State Anesthesia, Columbus, Dec 6
Harbor-UCLA Transitional and Prelim medicine, Dec 13
Arrowhead Transitional Year, Colton, CA, Dec 21
Virginia Mason Prelim Medicine, Seattle, Jan 2
Sacred Heart Transitional, Spokane, WA, Jan 4
Deaconness Trasitional, Spokane, WA, Jan 5
U. Nevada Prelim Medicine, Reno, Jan 9
UC Davis Anesthesia, Sacromento, CA, Jan 10
Banner Good Samaritan Transitional, Phoenix, Jan 12
U. of Arizona Anesthesia, Phoenix, Jan 13
U. New Mexico Anesthesia, Albuquerque, Jan 14
U. of Nevada Prelim Medicine, Las Vegas, Jan 16
U. of Utah Prelim Medicine, Salt Lake City, Jan 17
White Memorial Prelim Medicine, Los Angeles, Jan 19
George Washington U Anesthesia, DC, Jan 21
Cleavland Clinic Anesthesia, OH, Jan 23
UCLA-Kern Medical Center Transitional, Bakersfield, CA, Jan 25
San Joaquin Transitional, Stockton, CA, Jan 26
UCSF-Fresno Prelim Medicine, Fresno, CA, Feb 3

I'm thinking of canceling a few interviews, because this is too much, especially too many interviews for my internship year.

Air Force Match will soon be upon me!

So on Dec 14, the Air Force is going to tell me...

1st: whether they will let me do anesthesiology for a specialty. If not, my back up plan is to become a flight surgeon (a general practitioner, kind of like a family doc for pilots).

2nd: whether they will defer me to do civilian residency or become active duty in an Air Force residency.

This is what the chances are from a pretty uneducated guess.

60% chance: civilian anesthesiology residency
10% chance: Air Force anesthesiology residency
30% chance: become a Flight Surgeon

Usually people get their first choice for a specialty in the Air Force, but about 40 people want to do anesthesia, and the AF will only allow about 20 people to specialize in it, so in short, some people will be disappointed.