Man, you just gotta love the Olympics! Somehow, I get sucked into this thing whenever it comes, and I'm so happy that I do. Today after four surgeries and a patient who died in a trauma, I got some dinner and joined the rest of the team in the resident lounge. We crowded around the 56 inch television for some good old fashioned Olympics watching. We watched Michael Phelps win Olympic gold. We watched women's all-around gymnastics, combined with tons of commercials. We watched Michael Phelps set a new Olympic record in the 200M breast-stroke. Then we watched as Carly Patterson of Allen, TX (a suburb of Dallas) accomplished what no American woman has ever accomplished in a non-boycotted Olympics...she won the all-around gold medal, one night after Paul Hamm became the first American man to accomplish the same feat. Don't you get goosebumps when our National Anthem echoes across the arena? Shit, my national pride is always front and center during the Olympics, and we certainly have tons to cheer about this summer. I love it.