Tahoe

I wrote about this last year and probably will again next year, but this last weekend was our yearly resident retreat in Lake Tahoe. It is a really wonderful gesture of appreciation from the program for our hard work. And with a growing focus on resident well-being, having a stress-free weekend hosted by the program really helps us escape the day-to-day resident grind. In anesthesia, we don't see our peers and colleagues as much, and late night bonding in the cabins or up on the slopes is a wonderful way for us to get to know the rest of the program. And, much as we try to avoid it, the anesthesia stories that crop up become a very practical list of tips, tricks, pitfalls, and ideas that we learn from. We stayed in gorgeous cabins, had delicious meals, skied gorgeous slopes, and shrugged off the weariness of resident hours in winter.

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