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Dear UT,
I'll preface this post with the fact that I love to write, and hope to publish a novel someday. My writing coach and mentor, an accomplished screenwriter, doctor712, has told me incessantly to
write unfiltered.
With that said, I'll take his advice during this post...and write unfiltered...since the subject at hand: YOU...is worth it. I hope the unfiltered approach works since this post is extremely important to me. This post is an effort to show you how important you are. How much you mean to other people.
circa 2004 a few anesthesia professionals gelled on this site.
Some were attendings. Some were residents.
What resulted from that gel between just a few anesthesiologists was
EPIC.
I'm struggling to remember the exact year when You, MilitaryMD, Noyac, me, and later Plankton et al hit our groove.
But we hit it man.
I remember this site when we were all active...
THE CLINICAL POSTS THAT HAPPENED...
there was SO MUCH useful information going back and forth between all the active posters, no doubt being soaked up by the audience, the audience being attendings, residents, med students and pre meds...I'm sure, in retrospect, who loved our banter.
We were solving esoteric anesthesia problems online.
Lets go thru the cast:
Military MD: Probably the smartest dude ever to live here (besides you). Pragmatic, an intellect, knew the literature. Mil loved to get under a poster's skin. He'd get someone riled up, and would NOT relent.
Noyac: I've met the dude. Picture a supermodel looking kinda dude...slender yet muscular, longer dark hair, cool sunglasses, a dude looking like a professional snowboarder...west coast vibe and attire...this dude held SDN Anesthesia together, almost single handedly back in the day where trolls were a daily event, trolls that tried to take this site down...he stood strong as a moderator, checking in every day, checking the site, assassinating trolls, keeping the site strong. Alotta what SDN Anesthesia is today has to do with Noyac's dedication back then. Additionally, Noyac is a seasoned anesthesiologist who is a ROKKSTAR at his craft,a man who decided, unselfishly, to share his experiences with all of you.
Jet: I like to write. I'm pretty good at this anesthesiologist gig. I drive a Monsta Truck that looks funny in the doctor's parking lot. I have a can of Copenhagen in my lab coat.
UT Southwestern: When I think UT Southwestern, I think consummate professional. Dude, your knowledge of anesthesia is beyond belief. Your ability to relay knowledge to others via mass media (i.e. SDN) is remarkable. There have been countless heated interactions on this site about whatever...
what I remember about your posts is that despite whats going on...could be MAYHEM....
Norm steps in, cool and collective, and
LAYS THE S H I T ON THE LINE THAT CAN'T BE ARGUED.
Always professional. Never fed a troll.
Every one of your posts...
read that again...
EVERY. ONE. OF. YOUR. POSTS
had
INFORMATION. USEFUL INFORMATION.
You never lost your s h i t man. Never fed into a firefight.
ALWAYS came in with useful, pragmatic information/knowledge/tools/tricks of the trade.
I dunno how you did it.
But you did.
Our fairly recent phone conversations (before THIS) play in my mind.
The last voice message you left me.... a vibrant anesthesiologist/businessman checking on a colleague (me) who was starting a business...
I erase voice messages quickly just outta habit.
I can't erase your voice...
so full of confidence..
Don't lose that confidence I can hear when I replay your voice message.
Play hard.
I'm hurting with you. I think of you daily.
Love,
Bill
I'll preface this post with the fact that I love to write, and hope to publish a novel someday. My writing coach and mentor, an accomplished screenwriter, doctor712, has told me incessantly to
write unfiltered.
With that said, I'll take his advice during this post...and write unfiltered...since the subject at hand: YOU...is worth it. I hope the unfiltered approach works since this post is extremely important to me. This post is an effort to show you how important you are. How much you mean to other people.
circa 2004 a few anesthesia professionals gelled on this site.
Some were attendings. Some were residents.
What resulted from that gel between just a few anesthesiologists was
EPIC.
I'm struggling to remember the exact year when You, MilitaryMD, Noyac, me, and later Plankton et al hit our groove.
But we hit it man.
I remember this site when we were all active...
THE CLINICAL POSTS THAT HAPPENED...
there was SO MUCH useful information going back and forth between all the active posters, no doubt being soaked up by the audience, the audience being attendings, residents, med students and pre meds...I'm sure, in retrospect, who loved our banter.
We were solving esoteric anesthesia problems online.
Lets go thru the cast:
Military MD: Probably the smartest dude ever to live here (besides you). Pragmatic, an intellect, knew the literature. Mil loved to get under a poster's skin. He'd get someone riled up, and would NOT relent.
Noyac: I've met the dude. Picture a supermodel looking kinda dude...slender yet muscular, longer dark hair, cool sunglasses, a dude looking like a professional snowboarder...west coast vibe and attire...this dude held SDN Anesthesia together, almost single handedly back in the day where trolls were a daily event, trolls that tried to take this site down...he stood strong as a moderator, checking in every day, checking the site, assassinating trolls, keeping the site strong. Alotta what SDN Anesthesia is today has to do with Noyac's dedication back then. Additionally, Noyac is a seasoned anesthesiologist who is a ROKKSTAR at his craft,a man who decided, unselfishly, to share his experiences with all of you.
Jet: I like to write. I'm pretty good at this anesthesiologist gig. I drive a Monsta Truck that looks funny in the doctor's parking lot. I have a can of Copenhagen in my lab coat.
UT Southwestern: When I think UT Southwestern, I think consummate professional. Dude, your knowledge of anesthesia is beyond belief. Your ability to relay knowledge to others via mass media (i.e. SDN) is remarkable. There have been countless heated interactions on this site about whatever...
what I remember about your posts is that despite whats going on...could be MAYHEM....
Norm steps in, cool and collective, and
LAYS THE S H I T ON THE LINE THAT CAN'T BE ARGUED.
Always professional. Never fed a troll.
Every one of your posts...
read that again...
EVERY. ONE. OF. YOUR. POSTS
had
INFORMATION. USEFUL INFORMATION.
You never lost your s h i t man. Never fed into a firefight.
ALWAYS came in with useful, pragmatic information/knowledge/tools/tricks of the trade.
I dunno how you did it.
But you did.
Our fairly recent phone conversations (before THIS) play in my mind.
The last voice message you left me.... a vibrant anesthesiologist/businessman checking on a colleague (me) who was starting a business...
I erase voice messages quickly just outta habit.
I can't erase your voice...
so full of confidence..
Don't lose that confidence I can hear when I replay your voice message.
Play hard.
I'm hurting with you. I think of you daily.
Love,
Bill
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