Monday, October 23, 2006

Self-sacrifice = FIRST PLACE!

Saturday was the ACP Southern California Regional Poster Competition. Dave submitted a poster and won First Place! Whoo-hoo! The rewards included getting sent to the National Meeting all expenses paid (ha ha, it's in San Diego next time) and $500!

Dave + poster

Dave has a bizarre allergic reaction to pseudophedrine (Sudafed) which results in his hands getting all red and puffy, followed by the skin sloughing off like snake skin. It's a little gross and disturbing and only started happening about 3-4 years ago. Weird, huh?

Well, he turned himself into a case study which resulted in....
The Poster

Dave's hospital, Scripps Clinic, did pretty well. They took 1st and 3rd place for Clinical Vignettes and 1st place in Research. A very respectable showing. Unfortunately, last year was even better as they took EVERYTHING!

Bunch of Scripps MDs (Dave and fellow residents)

A good time was had by all, and a good excuse to spend the day at Huntington Beach!

P.S. Heather, if you're reading this, I talked to Dave and he thinks your freakiness may make a good case study! :)

2 comments:

Heather said...

ok but if he wins an all expense paid trip because of my "freakiness" then I get to come too :)
i love how you knew i would be reading this lol. at least im not at work, im at home "studying"

Anonymous said...

that poster idea is hilarious but awesome. congrats, dave! i'll have to use that technique to get to some conferences, though in pathology, that may prove difficult...... :)