O-O-O-OKlahoma! See One, Do One, Teach One - B Kane, MD

About 6 months ago Dr. Carlos Garcia, University of Oklahoma Derm Surgery, called me at 7 AM on a Saturday. It seems an 80 year-old patient of his, who boards her horses with his, told him about Medicine & Horses, saying he -had- to do the program. (The rrrrrrrest of the story, infra vide.)

Lo and behold, Dr. Garcia followed through on this plan at every step and this weekend I had the pleasure of going out to OU to teach M&H. The idea is that they will establish an ongoing course there, a good start for my "M&H Appleseed" vision of having M&H programs at 100s of med centers.

On the plane out there, I was reminded of Forrest Gump's homily, "Life is lahk a box o' chocklits. You never know waht yer gonna find." We had made fairly detailed preparations--I sent the syllabus and advised on details of water, snacks, etc. But I allowed for the possibility that the venue would be highly unsuitable, that we wouldn't have enough appropriate horses, that the students wouldn't get the point (that they were just coming to please Dr. Garcia, in whose hands their residency match rests to some extent, so I imagined.) I also fretted and fretted about whether and how to include Dr. Garcia in the proceedings--whether as a particpant or as a leader. The latter was going to be hard to do, with his never having even seen the exercises before. But I only had the one day for him to see one, do one, teach one.

Long story short--will post more later, we had a fantastic day! Eight med students, a derm resident, a derm attending, 2 TV stations, 2 local newspapers, and the University press.

Exhilarating and exhausting. More later, as I have to go to Webb to teach our last M&H class of the quarter.