Monday, June 16, 2008

Drew's Graduation/Entrance into Adulthood!

After 8 long years of hard work, Drew is finally DONE!!!! He went through 4 years of med school at UC Davis & has just completed 4 years of residency in Anesthesia at UCSD. Whoo-hoo!!! We're excited & had a fun-filled weekend with family & friends.

His graduation reception was held Saturday evening at the Martin Johnson House at Scripps Institution of Oceanography- a gorgeous site!

Here's the Dao family with some mighty proud parents.
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Drew with his renowned mentor, Dr. Piyush Patel, who gave him quite a roasting that night with some help from moi. One of the pictures I sent Dr. Patel mortified Drew's mom...thus no posting of it here. :)
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His graduating class of 12 with the rest of the UCSD Anesthesia department. I love anesthesiologists & their fun, easy-going attitudes.
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The reception starts...
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(That's Drew's sister, Ann & his cousin Mai in the hot pink dress -both physicians as well. It seems to run in the family!)

My hubby standing proudly as they acknowledge the four chief residents.
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Dr. Patel's roast starts:
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Drew's quite amused by what Dr. Patel has to say.
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Laughing with his resident buddies as the skits they made mocking their attendings is played on the screen.
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Yay - I'm SO proud of him!!!
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2 comments:

Daisy Varley said...

YEPEEE! CONGRATULATIONS DREW!!! I'm gonna miss you guys when you leave for Phoenix for the next stage of your lives together.

Anonymous said...

Congrats!!! We DID miss a beautiful grad site, didn't we? I'm so happy for you two!! Thanks for posting these - I heard that skit video was HILARIOUS. -Maki

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