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PGY-1s
Brian Barlow
ED alias/nickname: Cupcake
Care to explain its origins? I claimed it on Day 1!
Favorite chief complaint: "there's something wrong with me"
How do you like your coffee? black, hot, first thing when I wake up, and a lot of it.
Previous lives: fry guy, human ATM, lab rat Guilty pleasures: cookies and cupcakes, red wine, dumpster diving and thrift-store hoarding, watermelon
Favorite spot in Rochester: Movies 10 or the Public Market
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: most recently, "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle"
Lisa Bergsma
ED alias/nickname: Mt Dew/Blondie
Care to explain its origins? Ask Dr. Shah
Favorite chief complaint:TNTM (too numerous to mention)
How do you like your coffee? as chocolate covered espresso beans, or substitute Mountain Dew (see above)
Previous lives: traveler, historian, horse-lover
Guilty pleasures: ice cream, mountain biking,and long walks on the beach with my husband
Favorite spot in Rochester: Durand-Eastman Beach
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Rosen's of course! No seriously, TNTM...
Praneeta Bremjit
ED Alias/Nickname: Princess
Favorite Chief Complaint: Need pregnancy test
How do you like your coffee: With about 8 packets of sugar
Guilty Pleasures: Shoe shopping
Favorite Spot in Rochester: My apartment
Favorite Book besides Tintinalli: The Kite Runner
John DeAngelis
ED alias/nickname: Wiki
Care to explain its origins? As most nicknames, I had little choice in its origin
Favorite chief complaint:Anything in quotation marks
How do you like your coffee? Black
Previous lives: hemical Engineer in Ohio
Guilty pleasures: Rice Krispie Treats
Favorite spot in Rochester: Not sure yet, there's a lot to see
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Watership Down
Holly Gunyan
ED alias/nickname: Gunyan
Care to explain its origins?It's Anglo-Saxon and I acquired it on my wedding day.
Favorite chief complaint: Scrotal laceration: "I don't know how I got it" or anything orthopedic
How do you like your coffee? Why drink something that smells like dirty gym socks? Instead, I'll take hot chocolate made from Valrhona milk chocolate with lots of marshmallow fluff.
Previous lives: orthopedic medical assistant, phlebotomist and blood product lab technician, athletic trainer, bookbag/totebag manufacturer, seamstress, entomologic research assistant
Guilty pleasures: pizza, celebrity gossip magazines, costume dramas, paranormal/fantasy fiction novels
Favorite spot in Rochester: Historical sites and houses--still exploring, don't have a favorite one yet.
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Hiding Place, The Scarlett Pimpernell, etc
Christopher Harmon
Favorite chief complaint: "I've had this headache for 3 weeks, my stomach has hurt for the last 5 days, I have been coughing for a couple weeks and my elbow really hurts."
How do you like your coffee? Tasting as much like Diet Coke as possible.
Previous lives: College athlete, clearly previously.
Guilty pleasures: Watching sports and playing/hiking with my black lab/golden retriever Einstein.
Favorite spot in Rochester: My screened in porch.
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: "Luckiest Man: The life and death of Lou Gehrig"
Cole Klick
ED alias/nickname:TBD
Care to explain its origins?TBD
Favorite chief complaint: "Multiple"
How do you like your coffee? Strong and black, add creamer when my stomach is feeling less manly
Previous lives: Pool boy, surf bum, teen heart-throb
Guilty pleasures: Romantic comedies, the olive bar at wegmanns, tank tops, rusty old trucks
Favorite spot in Rochester: Singletrack at Tryon Park and Bay West
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Anything by Ernest Hemingway, John Krakauer, or John Steinbeck, preferably on audiobook
Valerie Lou
ED alias/nickname: Spider Monkey
Care to explain its origins? Ref: Talladega Nights
Favorite chief complaint: Patient in peds ED: "My mom said she was meeting me here." (Mom driving to hospital for psych eval)
How do you like your coffee? Shade-grown, fair-trade, medium roast, brewed strong in my vac pot
Previous lives: yogi, park ranger
Guilty pleasures: re-reading children's novels, peanut butter by the spoonful
Favorite spot in Rochester: My porch in a thunderstorm
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: "Sometimes a Great Notion"
Jeffrey Moon
ED alias/nickname: Jersey Jeff, but everyone will end up calling me 'Moon' anyway
Care to explain its origins? I'm passionate, intense, loud and proud: like a lot of people from New Joisey
Favorite chief complaint: "Been drinkin' all day"
How do you like your coffee? Dark, strong and daily
Previous lives: Special Assistant to UR's Provost and Exec. VP, Hopkins researcher, NJ Senator's aide, health care lobbyist, editor, Olive Garden waiter
Guilty pleasures: Craft brews, metal music, and fantasy books--all at once are fine with me. Also, The Wire and The Sopranos.
Favorite spot in Rochester: Anywhere fish are biting
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: The Art of War, Social Intelligence, The Art of Woo, A Song of Ice and Fire series, Essays of EB White, Forgotten Realms books, New Humanities Reader, The Bhagavad Gita, The Dhammapada
Antonion Rodriguez
ED alias/nickname: A-Rod
Origins: I used to play baseball for the Yankees (in little league)
Favorite chief complaint: Terminal, end stage fibromyalgia pain
How do you like your coffee: I don't really, but I'll drink it to avoid being a bobble-head in conference.
Previous lives: Saltwater fishing enthusiast
Guilty pleasures: I just can't help but sing along to that "Call me maybe" song. It's just SO catchy!
Favorite spot in Rochester: Monroe COunty Crossfit and the Ellison Park dog park
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Rosen's
Henry Tran
ED alias/nickname: The consultant
Care to explain its origins?I didn't have scrubs the first week of shifts, so I wore a dress shirt. Thus, everyone thought I was a consultant and not actually an EM resident
Favorite chief complaint: one time in peds ED:4 yr oldchildwoke up scared of dark
How do you like your coffee? dark and bitter
Previous lives: anatomy TA, lab tech, volunteer coordinator
Guilty pleasures: board games, Kelly Clarkson, chocolate chip ice cream
Favorite spot in Rochester: Tap and Mallet, the trail up the Genesee River
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Crime and Punishment, Harry Potter 6
Aaron Weaver
ED alias/Nickname: Batman
Care to explain its origins?: I'm Batman.
Favorite chief complaint:"I've been coughing up $100 bills, here take one."
How do you like your coffee? Black, though really dark brown is probably a more accurate description.
Previous Lives: Full-on hippie. Dreadlocks, tie-dye, patchwork pants (sewed 'em myself), etc.
Guilty pleasures: Life's too short to feel guilty about pleasures.
Favorite spot in Rochester: Jeremiah's Tavern
Favorite Book besides Tintinalli: The Puppet Masters, or any Calvin and Hobbes collection.
PGY-2s
Stephanie Abraham
ED alias/nickname: None for me thanks
Favorite chief complaint: "chapstick in bum"
How do you like your coffee? Iced quadruple shot skinny vanilla latte
Previous lives: Mad scientist
Guilty pleasures: US Magazine, people watching at Wal-Mart, remodeling my house
Favorite spot in Rochester: My recliner
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: The Outsiders, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series, Emergency Medicine for Dummies
Nicholas Aloisio
ED alias/nickname: "The Situation"
Care to explain its origins? Unfortunately, my memory of the details is a little hazy; you'd have to ask someone else who was there...
Favorite chief complaint: "I'm here to see Jim."
How do you like your coffee? Black - any other way isn't really "coffee".
Previous lives: A cappella star and world traveler.
Guilty pleasures: Cold beer, hot wings, and the Buffalo Bills.
Favorite spot in Rochester: Sitting in front of a plate piled high with Cajun-style pit-smoked pulled pork at the Beale Street Cafe.
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: "The Hobbit", and as a close second, Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax".
Ryan Barnes
ED alias/nickname: Beef
Care to explain its origins? Either because of my super human strength or massive pectoral muscles? LOL
Favorite chief complaint: "Im here for my Lortab and my Xanaxeses."
How do you like your coffee? In my camelpack or in one liter aliquots.
Previous lives: Construction worker, research assistant, EMT/fireman.
Guilty pleasures: Red wine and dark chocolate
Favorite spot in Rochester: The bay
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Into Thin Air
Joseph Bettendorf
Favorite chief complaint: Back Pain
How do you like your coffee? Black.
Previous lives: Cross country ski racer, Landscaper, ski bum, timeshare salesman, grad student.
Guilty pleasures: GTL
Favorite spot in Rochester : Canandaigua Lake
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: anything "Made Ridiculously Simple"
William Burgos Daya
ED alias/nickname: Big Papi
Care to explain its origins? What can I say; I am a big teddy bear
Favorite chief complaint: abdominal pain
How do you like your coffee? French vanilla, with cream, hold the sugar
Previous lives: Heart breaker and a life taker, sergeant USMC
Guilty pleasures: Maury Povich
Favorite spot in Rochester: Great Harvest
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: I am not paid to read, i am paid to lead
Dave Hart
ED alias/nickname: "Daveheart" pronounced as a single word in one flow, like "Braveheart", only it sounds exactly like my real name, so my contention is that it is not a real nickname at all. (P.S. "Brave hart", NOT "brave heart", is the original phrase, meaning brave stag or male dear; it comes from Shakespeare's "Julius Cesaer", so that would really make my nickname "Dave hart", which is of course my real name, just further proving my point).
Care to explain its origins? Some dude said it...you know how it goes.
Favorite chief complaint: "My knee hurts...and it gives me chest pain."
How do you like your coffee? In front of someone else (I keep away).
Previous lives: Rock climbing guide, real estate agent, missionary.
Guilty pleasures: PBS - I love just about everything on PBS (and in NY, I can get three or four different PBS channels in HD with just a bunny-ear antenna!)
Favorite spot in Rochester: Letchworth is just south of here...that place is impressive (for being east of the Rocky Mountains). They call it the "Grand Canyon of the East".
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Crime and Punishment probably - it's been a while since I read it, but I remember it totally rocked my cerebrum.
Joseph Hayek
ED alias/nickname: Joe
Care to explain its origins? When I was a little kid I was friends with an old man who used to walk me to day care. He would call me “Jumping Jack Joey Joe Joe Shabado Crazy legs Jackson, Jr, the third” One day, he was waving bye from the street and reciting my full nickname when a seagull swooped down to steal his morning doughnut. As he recited the last part of my nickname while sidestepping the seagull attack, he was hit by a bus, killing him instantly. From then on I made my friends call me “Joe” for fear that they too would die in a horrible seagull/bus accident while reciting my full nickname.
Favorite chief complaint: "I put an M&M in my nose"
How do you like your coffee? With hot chocolate powder in it.
Previous lives: I finished 3 years of surgery residency before I decided on the right career.
Guilty pleasures: Making up ridiculous stories
Favorite spot in Rochester: Mendon Ponds
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: "The Alchemist" by Paolo
Evan Leventhal
ED alias/nickname: Gizmo
Care to explain its origins? I have a thing for computers/technology
Favorite chief complaint: "I don't know why I'm here"
How do you like your coffee? Decaf
Previous lives: Programmer, IT/Network guy, Ski instructor, EMT, Firefighter
Guilty pleasures: Anything that’s shiny, has buttons and I can take apart (see ED alias)
Favorite spot in Rochester: Distillery
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Ender's Game
Ryan McBeth
ED alias: Didn't get one, call me whatever you like.
Favorite chief complaint: "TNTM", which stands for "too numerous to mention"
How do you like your coffee? I don't. I'll take a black and white hot chocolate.
Previous lives: Boy Scout, Ride attendant at the Family Fun Center, Pool Cover Technician, Stock Boy at Nordstrom, Janitor, Pest Control Technician, Personal Trainer, Fence Painter, Ice Cream Maker
Guilty pleasures: They all have to do with food: homemade ice cream, fruit pie, peanut butter cream, oreo milkshakes, chocolate covered peanut butter filled pretzels, and the list goes on...
Favorite spot in Rochester: Trail running at Tryon Park, Kayaking Irondequoit Creek, Road cycling anywhere in the country.
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: I don't read if I don't have to, though I am "reading" (aka audiobook) A Game of Thrones.
Shuolun Ruan
ED alias/nickname: "the Warrior" or "Mother Hen"
Origins: Warrior - b/c my name often gets mis-pronounced as "shaolin" like the Chinese kung-fu institution
Mother Hen - b/c I gotta look out for my fellow interns :)...from telling them where to find our many Orientation classrooms to getting us to hang out for bowling or drinks or both
Favorite chief complaint: testicular pain
How do you like your coffee: Black!
Previous lives: previous? Living it up now!
Guilty pleasures: The Food Network
Favorite spot in Rochester: anywhere with Salsa dancing
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Ender's Game, Pride & Prejudice
Timothy Salib
ED alias/nickname: Salib
Care to explain its origins? From a land, from a far away place
Favorite chief complaint: "I be havin pain sometimes, you know?"
How do you like your coffee? Black
Previous lives: Beach bum, fish taco connoisseur
Guilty pleasures: Margaritas
Favorite spot in Rochester: My house
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: "Cannery Row" - Steinbeck
Mark Smith
ED alias/nickname: that is privileged information
Care to explain its origins? A hot tub and a beverage were involved
Favorite chief complaint: any kind of laceration
How do you like your coffee? With a little bit of bourbon, hold the coffee
Previous lives: Hoosier
Guilty pleasures: Mad Men
Favorite spot in Rochester: Highland Park
Favorite book besides Tintinelli: not a big reader
PGY-3s
Gregory Blanton
Favorite chief complaint: "My boyfriend has reptile dysfunction"
How do you like your coffee? With a big fat side of breakfast
Previous lives: Eagle Scout, Marine, smiler, dreamer
Guilty pleasures: Gin, Anheuser-Busch, chewing tobacco, hickory-smoked ribs
Favorite spot in Rochester: My bed
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Crime & Punishment
Justin DeWillers
ED alias: Papa Bear
Care to explain its origins? I'm a papa & look like a bear when post-call
Favorite chief complaint: “The police said I had to come here so I did ”
How do you like your coffee? Regular
Previous lives: Network Engineer, Project Manager, Tech Support
Guilty pleasures: Reddit
Favorite spot in Rochester: Durand Eastman Park
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: TNTC Shogun - James Clavell, Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson, Chuck Palahniuk's work, and The Things They Carried are a few of them.
Sarah Fabiano
ED alias: Snookie
Care to explain its origins? Because people think I'm from Jersey
Favorite chief complaint: Body pain
How do you like your coffee? Full of caffeine with just cream
Guilty pleasures: Watching Twilight movies and the Secret Life of the American Teenager
Favorite spot in Rochester: Distillery
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Anything by Patricia Cornwell
Colleen Kovach
ED alias: No idea, maybe something like beri-beri
Favorite chief complaint: Post-prandial vaginal discharge, while not my favorite, I give kudos for creativity (& yes, this was the actual written CC)
How do you like your coffee? Cafe con leche
Previous lives: Nomad, medical work in S. Africa
Guilty pleasures: Travel, scuba diving, trying to get a pilot's license, Israeli music
Favorite spot in Rochester: My bed
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: "An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century" by Dr. James Orbinski
Terry Lester
ED alias: Terry
Care to explain its origins? Long story, ask me sometime
Favorite chief complaint: My mouth feels gummy
How do you like your coffee? I don't
Previous lives: ED tech
Guilty pleasures: McDonald's breakfast
Favorite spot in Rochester: My house
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Andrea Miglani
ED alias: The Gooch
Care to explain its origins? Ask Rueckmann
Favorite chief complaint: Multiple Issues
How do you like your coffee? Black
Previous lives: I’ve done it all
Guilty pleasures: Anything highly caloric and non nutritious, and …. swearing
Favorite spot in Rochester: Letchworth park
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Cat’s cradle
Lars Peterson
ED alias: SuperUser
Care to explain its origins? The guy who volunteered to roll out e-Record
Favorite chief complaint: Vomiting alone
How do you like your coffee? Peet's. Major Dickason's blend without cream or sugar please.
Previous lives: Stage Manager, media production assistant, neuroscience researcher, and still currently a consumer tech geek.
Guilty pleasures: New iPhone/iPad apps, new camera/tech gear, Top Chef
Favorite spot in Rochester: Outdoors- Highland Park walking with my girlfriend and her dog, Lindy. Indoors- Watching a movie at The Little
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Catch-22, Joseph Heller
John Schueckler
ED alias: Jay
Care to explain its origins? Always been my nickname
Favorite chief complaint: Vomiting alone is tied with unusual bleeding
How do you like your coffee? Black and at the beginning, middle and end of a shift
Previous lives: Lifeguard, waiter, bartender, research assistant
Guilty pleasures: Time off
Favorite spot in Rochester: Park Ave area is always a good time
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Hot Lights Cold Steal| Stiffs| Catcher and the Rye| A Million Little Pieces| My Friend Leonard
Bradford Schwartz
Favorite chief complaint: "it hurts everywhere"
How do you like your coffee? With hot chocolate, or just preferrably hot chocolate
Previous lives: Not sure if I'm a Buddhist
Guilty pleasures: Indulging in "patient food" -- animal crackers and ginger ale
Favorite spot in Rochester: Basketball court at Starry Night's cafe
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: The Gas We Pass..The Story of Farts by Shinta Cho
Alex Stella
ED alias: Alejandro
Care to explain its origins? It's my name
Favorite chief complaint: Snake bites
How do you like your coffee? Black
Previous lives: Ski patroller, ski lift installation
Guilty pleasures: Skiing, travel, Mexican food, Metallica, working on my truck. No guilt!
Favorite spot in Rochester: Running, skiing, ice climbing the Finger Lakes, and the "'daks" aren't far either.
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: A Man's Heart was Made to Beat and Not to Gasp Inside the Cement Boxes of Bureaucracy | Don Arturo Bergamaschi ( Italian Priest and climber)
Jesse Turley
ED alias: Baxter
Care to explain its origins? It's my first name. It's a family name passed down through generations, I think it means "Hero."
Favorite chief complaint: "same as always"
How do you like your coffee? Irish
Previous lives: I worked at Wal-Mart long enough to technically retire.
Guilty pleasures: I never feel guilty about pleasures
Favorite spot in Rochester: Park Avenue
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: I really enjoy bathroom readers of just about any sort. I always find it hard to put them down...
Joshua Zwart
ED alias: JZ
Favorite chief complaint: Anything that begins with "Well, for the past few months..."
How do you like your coffee? Freshly roasted beans from a small roaster in Seattle, made in a french press, black.
Previous lives: Flight medic, firefighter, janitor
Guilty pleasures: Ice cream, lots and lots of it!
Favorite spot in Rochester: My gorgeous 1920s home, also Dicky's Pub, 2 blocks from that gorgeous house!
Favorite book besides Tintinalli: Anything non-medical, but usually it's the NYT
