Okay, not really. The most famous person I’ve ever met was Paul Simon, the former US Senator from Illinois, when I was about 10, and at that age, shaking hands with a US Senator who wore a bow tie really wasn’t all that cool. It was pretty uncool, actually. Not to mention the fact that, when you’re 10, you don’t really get the point of the hand-to-hand embrace that one must perform when greeting another. Suffice it to say that I was a little weirded out.

Anyway, back to the topic of knowing someone (not really) famous. One of my former fellow students and a former TA of mine, now an intern, was quoted in today’s RedEye, a child publication of the Chicago Tribune, regarding the similarities between the show Nip/Tuck and the lives of actual plastic surgeons:

‘Are there doctors that exist like that? I’m sure it’s based on a kernel of truth,’ said Trang Nguyen, 28, a first year resident in plastic surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center. ‘All the plastic surgeons I’ve had the opportunity to work with are anything but what you see on TV. They are not the money-hungry womanizers you see on ‘Nip/Tuck,” she said.”

The rest of the article itself is pretty good. Sounds like plastic surgeons have surprisingly normal lives—except for that whole “I make 80x more money than you, and I aced my boards to boot” thing. Screw you, USMLE, screw you.