Harvard Medical School Year 2 Day 3 “Meeting a Living Legend”

Today I had the opportunity to meet a living legend of medicine, Dr. Eugene Braunwald, who was just a name to me until today. Dr. Braunwald was the editor of “Harrison’s Textbook of Medicine” when I was in medical school and he was responsible for a large part of my (and many other’s) education. Before the lecture I took the opportunity to talk to him and thank him for all he did for me. I also took the opportunity to take a picture with him.

After the conference ended we headed over to the Parish Cafe (361 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116) for dinner. We had their gourmet sandwiches. Mine was fantastic but Patrice’s was grossly under cooked. They obviously recognized me from my blog because they were very apologetic and got Patrice a properly prepared meal and didn’t charge us. Being mentioned in my blog with my following (+/- 200) can make or break a restaurant. The food was very good but their bread pudding only rated a D+ when compared to Masa (The Reiss standard when it comes to bread pudding).

After dinner we went to the “Improv Asylum” (216 Hanover St, Boston, MA 02113) comedy club. We had been there before and I remembered asking last time if they had a senior discount (don’t all comedy venues have senior discounts?). The cashier looked at me and said, “I don’t know”. Turns out they did and they still do. The show wasn’t as funny as we remembered from the last time but it had its moments.

The conference is over so tomorrow is a free day. We have lots of fun things that I want to do. I’d let you know what they are but Patrice hasn’t told me yet.