Alice Hsu
09-04 2021 05:00
wrote:
Dr. Kim from 2011.
When I started pharmacy residency in 2007, Dr. Kim asked the Department of Pharmacy for a pharmacist to round with the Division of Peds ID. I remember thinking to myself at the time how wonderful of an opportunity that would be, because I knew very early on in my training that I wanted to practice in peds ID. This position stayed vacant for 2 years during my residency training, and I was fortunate to have the opportunity to interview with Dr. Kim, and was offered the position. Fast forward 12 years, I have so many fond memories of rounding with Dr. Kim that accumulated over the years. Dr. Kim was so dedicated to teaching, he had a set of questions he liked to quiz the fellows and residents on, which included things like "what is the average CSF turn over rate?", "what are the 5 reasons to use rifampin?". Dr. Kim and I would joke sometimes that recently we could only think of 4 reasons to use rifampin, the 5th reason escapes us and we couldn't think of it! But there definitely used to be 5 reasons. Sometimes when the fellow is talking to the teams, Dr. Kim and I would stand in the hallway and chat about life, family, the weather. I liked picking his brain about things, ask him what he would do in certain scenarios. Another thing I have learned after many years of rounding with Dr. Kim, is that you start rounds at the top of the children's center, because if you start at the ground floor of the children's center, Dr. Kim would make the whole team walk up the stairs to see each patient. And usually by the time we make it to the top, we are all huffing and puffing and Dr. Kim looks fine! Certain words he would say or the way he would pronounce them always made me smile, he called cardiac vegetations "veggies", and when he would say "debridement" he had almost a European accent. I will miss dearly these daily interactions with Dr. Kim. You will always be with us Dr. Kim, in our thoughts and in our hearts.
Alice Hsu
09-04 2021 05:00
wrote:
Dr. Kim from 2011.
When I started pharmacy residency in 2007, Dr. Kim asked the Department of Pharmacy for a pharmacist to round with the Division of Peds ID. I remember thinking to myself at the time how wonderful of an opportunity that would be, because I knew very early on in my training that I wanted to practice in peds ID. This position stayed vacant for 2 years during my residency training, and I was fortunate to have the opportunity to interview with Dr. Kim, and was offered the position. Fast forward 12 years, I have so many fond memories of rounding with Dr. Kim that accumulated over the years. Dr. Kim was so dedicated to teaching, he had a set of questions he liked to quiz the fellows and residents on, which included things like "what is the average CSF turn over rate?", "what are the 5 reasons to use rifampin?". Dr. Kim and I would joke sometimes that recently we could only think of 4 reasons to use rifampin, the 5th reason escapes us and we couldn't think of it! But there definitely used to be 5 reasons. Sometimes when the fellow is talking to the teams, Dr. Kim and I would stand in the hallway and chat about life, family, the weather. I liked picking his brain about things, ask him what he would do in certain scenarios. Another thing I have learned after many years of rounding with Dr. Kim, is that you start rounds at the top of the children's center, because if you start at the ground floor of the children's center, Dr. Kim would make the whole team walk up the stairs to see each patient. And usually by the time we make it to the top, we are all huffing and puffing and Dr. Kim looks fine! Certain words he would say or the way he would pronounce them always made me smile, he called cardiac vegetations "veggies", and when he would say "debridement" he had almost a European accent. I will miss dearly these daily interactions with Dr. Kim. You will always be with us Dr. Kim, in our thoughts and in our hearts.
