My Retirement Diary 2024 Go to: My Retirement Diary 2023   ________________________________ Most images will enlarged if you click on them. September 13-October 13, 2024:  My last posting in this retirement diary was written on September 12th, one month ago. As I now have the motivation and some free time, I’m going to attempt to bring this diary up-to-date. October 13: The Vanderbilt Crew It’s been nearly four decades since Gail and I got married—39 years, to be precise. Around that same time, I met R & D, T & D, and P & R—“The Vanderbilt Crew.” R, D, T, and I were in the same internal medicine training program at Vanderbilt. P and R were a year behind us. During one of the most stressful yet intellectually exhilarating periods of my medical education, we worked together day in and day out. Sometimes we worked 36-hour shifts, followed by just 12 hours of rest, and this cycle stretched on for months. At times, we had little supervision, and in those moments, we leaned on each other. Our shared, albeit nascent, medical knowledge was our lifeline. We learned to trust one another. And learn we did. These high-stress, life-and-death experiences forged … Continue reading My Retirement Diary 2024