What Residency Looks Like LXXVII: The View from the Top

Sometimes residency looks like a gorgeous view from the research center, where you have stopped for an hour to fight with PowerPoint between clinic and a meeting. The children's hospital opened 10 years ago on a hill near the Allegheny River in the north-central Pittsburgh neighborhood of Lawrenceville, which used to be a grimy area that has since gentrified with twee shops and apartments (but the only grocery store is still a SaveALot). Looking across the river valley walking into or out of work here is one of the highlights of my days on pediatrics. The fall colors are brief but brilliant, and the snowy hillsides never fail to remind me of Dresden and the Elbe. Sometimes there is too much fog to see anything, other times lights twinkle in the dark. Today, the clumpy white clouds doubled the still-green trees on the hills below, seen over the rooftops of nearby Bloomfield, the old Italian neighborhood.

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