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Created: 30th October 2000

We are the Friars. . .and the Friars are great

Hi there Unknown Visitor! Glad you could stop by! My little space here is forever changing so let me know what I've misspelled.

Life at the moment - nearly April (thinking of spring) 2004

My baby girl #1 is now 2 1/2 years old. Li'l Alyson is doing great. My wife and I had baby #2 May 1st, 2004. Big birthday coming up.

I'm a doctor-in-residence at Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital. Two more years fo residency then out on my own. This year was mainly inpatient. Loved working with Spinal Cord Injury Patients, Pediatric Rehab and Stroke; Brain Injury rehab is a little different. . .just ask if you truly want to know.

Other than that life keeps on going good for ol' Friar.

Hopefully I'll be returning with greater frequency to h2g2 in the coming weeks.

Things I know something about

Biological sciences, I have a B.S. in biology and physical anthropology, as well as a long-forgotten M.S. in Physiology
Medicine, I graduated medical school: June 6th, 2003
American Sports, big fan of baseball, football, basketball and hockey
Gambling and gaming in general, I've been gong to the race track since I was 12 and learned to play craps shortly thereafter. Recently, i have been playing a great deal of poker.
Film, I was a memeber of the Ann Arbor Film Cooperative (at least technically) a long time ago, unfortunately my days at the cinema are mostly behind me
Cooking and restaurants
Midwest U.S., especially Chicago, my lil hometown
American Legal System, most of my family are lawyers

Current Status

I'm a new member as of the American Football Forum. You can fin us here.

In addition to my official duties, I'm a H2G2 Guardian Angel. I am the Patron Saint of Lost Puppies.

I'm writing a comprehensive article on Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth. Writing is not the correct word; it would be better to say that I'm putzing about as real writers, like psychocandy do some great work. In any event, we're still looking for feedback and more help, so please let me know if you have any ideas or want to pitch in!¹

Come into the Kitchen to see some of my recipes.

Everything old is new again

((1+5+8)+(5*0))*3=42

Being a Dad is the best job ever, now go to sleep

¹ See what I mean about writing? I ended this sentence with a preposition!

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RESEARCHER DATA

Name:

Friar
Last posted: Aug 8, 2002

Researcher Number:

158503

Referenced Entries:

h2g2 Guardian Angels...

Kitchen

Chicago, Illinois, USA

American Football Forum

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psychocandy - I'm a kleptomaniac, but I'm taking something for it

CONVERSATIONS

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Cross your fingers, toes, etc, please	h2g2	No Posting	Oct 9, 2009
Help me to understand this... (PC)	h2g2	No Posting	Sep 14, 2009
And in the next life, father, he's gonne have the paddle	h2g2	No Posting	Sep 14, 2009
ooh, looky!	h2g2	No Posting	Aug 25, 2009
What would you do with it? (PC)	h2g2	No Posting	Jul 23, 2009
Is there anything I'm missing?	h2g2	No Posting	Jul 11, 2009
catching up... (PC)	h2g2	No Posting	Jul 3, 2009



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MESSAGES

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Leave a Message		LATEST POST

The Shoulder entries		May 30, 2006
Botox entry: A4888281		Sep 15, 2005
Jack Daniel		Aug 31, 2005
Texas Hold'em feedback		Apr 18, 2005
Mies Van der Rohe submission		Oct 31, 2004
Open wide and say AWE		Apr 26, 2004
Your entry has been submitted to 'Peer Review'		Jan 31, 2004
quick question		Sep 11, 2003
in search of a chicago guru		Sep 9, 2003
Frankfurters		Aug 31, 2003


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Guide entry
Apr 16, 2005

I've written my first guide entry in what seems like forever.

I'm on call at Schwab. It's really slow tonight, so far. But instead of sleeping, I'm writing. I have a cold and breathing through my nose is painful.

Eventually I'll exhaust myself. Hopefully there will be some time for sleep before that happens...

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I'm back
Mar 29, 2004

Hopefully. . .

Life has returned to its usual level of probability. I should be onsite a lot more.

We're keeping out fingers crossed.

Friar

Discuss this entry - 1 reply - Latest reply: Aug 25, 2004

ON CALL PHYSICIAN
Jul 8, 2003

Ok, I'm now an internin a 314 bed community hospital. Tonight there are three interns on call, a senior resident, an OB/GYN resident and a Critical Care Fellow (somebody who's finished residency, but is taking another year to become more specialized. . .In this that that means the Intensive Care Unit, i.e. critical care).

Anyway, there are about 250 beds for the three interns to cover tonight. I have the fewest beds (around 60) but I also have the sickest patients. A few patients with cardiac issues, a few with blood clots in their lungs, that kind of thing. I also have a few patients just waiting to die. Usually that's not such a bad thing. All my terminal patients tonight are pretty stable and I should make it to morning without a problem from that group.

There are a few mostly stable almostready to go home patients that scare me a lot more. Why? Because if they get sick, I should eb able to save them.

Me.

yikes

Discuss this entry - 9 replies - Latest reply: Sep 5, 2003

National Residency Match Program
Feb 20, 2003

I'm finishing up med school here and the Match happens in a few weeks.

Basically after med school you go into a "residency" program to be an apprentice in your selected field of medicine (pediatrics, surgery, etc). The residency lasts 3-5 years depending on the type of medicine and the hospital at which you train.

The Match works like this:
I rank all the programs I like (all of which i interview at and do some research about)

All the programs I apply to rank me, or choose to NOT rank me.

An algorithm looks at the two lists and decides where I will spend the next 4 years of my life.

Now there is a chance that I WILL NOT MATCH. This will happen if programs don't like that my grades are a little low and just don't rank me, or if they like OTHER candidates more than they like me.

If that happens, i might have to move out of Chicago. Where I own a home, where my wife works and where my entire family lives.

So I'm freaking out a little. Because I've only applied in Chicago the number of programs I'm looking at is far less than my classmates who will move anywhere in the country. that doesn't help me.

I have to submit my list in one week.
I'll find out IF I matched on March 17.
I'll find out WHERE I matched on March 20.

I got a month to go.
they should make this process a little MORE anxiety provoking. . .

Discuss this entry - 5 replies - Latest reply: Jun 3, 2003

On working with professional contractors
Jan 23, 2003

I dunno if they have these elsewhere, but in the US when you do major home renovations it's pretty common to hire a Contractor. This person hires Sub-Contractors to do the work (like plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc.). Because they are often plumbers, electricians or carpenters, they can hire themselves, and because the people they hire work closely and frequently with the Contractors they can pay less then typical folks, like me, would pay.

Anyway, we started work on the addition to our house in August. they aren't finished yet.

We added a two story 830 sq. ft. addition, with two baths. It was a pretty major project. The work didn't really get started until September/October because of legal stuff with the city. In any evern. Since Dec 22 the workmen have been here a total of 6 days. My wife is returning to work (after her maternity leave) on Monday and the workmen have about 4 days left of work to do. Basically unless they work like lil' ba$tards until Monday they will not finish.

I still owe them $20,000. That's the only power I've got to get them to show up and finish. Realistically, I cold finish the work myself. But unless they tell me that they've quit, I have to pay them anyway.

I'm really pissed.

They're totally not going to come and work this week.

They $uck.

damn

damndamndamn

Discuss this entry - 3 replies - Latest reply: Feb 15, 2003

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GUIDE ENTRIES

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ID	TITLE	COMMUNITY	STATUS	CREATED

A12737649	The Shoulder	h2g2	Edited	Aug 10, 2006
A4888281	Botox: Botulinum Toxin and its Medical Applications	h2g2	Edited	Sep 9, 2005
A4004542	Marvel Comic Books: The X-Men	h2g2	-	May 4, 2005
A3903095	Botulinum Toxin and Its Medical Applications	h2g2	-	Apr 16, 2005
A2451430	The Wonder of the Human Ear	h2g2	Edited	Aug 23, 2004
A2318230	The Wonder of the Human Ear	h2g2	-	Feb 20, 2004
A1907534	Medical Maggots	h2g2	Edited	Nov 18, 2003
A1317917	Hives - the Causes, Symptoms and Treatments	h2g2	Edited	Nov 12, 2003
A1295516	The Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA	h2g2	-	Sep 21, 2003
A1171351	Medical Maggots	h2g2	-	Sep 10, 2003
A1045720	Television Chefs Who Are Popular in the US	h2g2	Edited	Aug 1, 2003
A1094267	'Rounders' - the Film	h2g2	Edited	Jul 9, 2003
A1074935	Rounders - The Film	h2g2	-	Jun 10, 2003
A991857	Television Chefs Popular in the US	h2g2	-	Mar 8, 2003
A946262	How to Play Fantasy Sports	h2g2	-	Jan 26, 2003
A885468	Chicago-style Hot Dogs and Hot Dog Stands	h2g2	Edited	Jan 2, 2003
A880247	Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, USA	h2g2	-	Nov 22, 2002
A810181	Digging a Snow Shelter	h2g2	Edited	Sep 23, 2002
A794379	Jack Daniels Old No 7 Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey	h2g2	Edited	Sep 16, 2002



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