Author – PGY3 Matt Aronson
Why I love My neighborhood:
My wife and I grew up on the East Coast in the Boston area and moved to Chicago from Santa Barbara, CA for medical school. We have been in River North for 5 years now – we were originally in Gold Coast. River North is located just north of the insanely beautiful Chicago River Walk. It’s probably best known for having some of the best restaurants and rooftops in the city. My wife and I are obsessed -we are right in the center of the entire city – everything is walkable in River North. My wife runs the yoga program across the street at Studio Three and she has the world’s best commute. We’ve experienced the East Coast and the West Coast but we fell in love with the Midwest thanks to the people and the amazing neighborhoods in Chicago.
Photo #1: Rooftop Dog-runs
River North has so many amazing high-rise buildings and it feels like everybody has a dog. My wife and I like to explore rooftop scenes and find sneaky little dog parks and dog runs for our pupper.
Photo #2: Drop-dead Gorgeous City Views from my Apartment
The city of Chicago offers some of the most picturesque views of any city in the states. The architecture here is over-the-top. My wife and I have taken Chicago’s famous architecture boat tour at least 3 times because we cannot get enough. The views we get looking out our window make us feel like the luckiest people on earth.
#TheACMCdifference
My residency experience has been indescribable – the most humbling/exhilarating/self-actuating thing I will ever do.
I rotated at Christ as a medical student and was simply awestruck – I fell completely in love. As a medical student I loved every rotation, no surprise I found my passion in emergency medicine. I very deliberately chose my away rotations:
1 academic program,
1 county program,
1 “other.”
My “other” was Christ – an incomparable hybrid of community/county/academic emergency medicine with insane acuity and high volume at a level 1 trauma center. I had never come across anything like it (and still haven’t): 1-on-1 training with attendings, immediate and repeated exposure to the sickest patients, unparalleled camaraderie with some of the hardest-working docs/nurses/RTs/techs. The down-to-earth, no-frills, humble vibe that the residents and attendings give off is so endearing and allows for the best learning environment I could ask for. The availability of ED/Critical-Care mentors and the ridiculous variety and acuity of pathology allowed me to find my passion: EM Critical care. I would do it all again in a heartbeat.
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