FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Saturday, December 22, 2007
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2007-12-22

Text below is verbatim from the released PDFs, with the original line breaks.
==============================================================================

DIARY ENTRY — Saturday, December 22, 2007
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 166 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
Words: 254
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Has breakfast at Panera in Chevy Chase with Terry Lierman who is now
Chief-of –Staff to House leader Steny Hoyer (an old friend). We discussed the usual
politics and I mentioned that the only job that I would take in a new administration is
Secretary of HHS. Terry said that everyone knows in the democratic party that I am most
qualified, but that I have “a Bush problem” in that I am too closely associated over the
years with the Bush’s. Such is Life; I am not at all upset about this since who knows
what will happen and besides, I do not covet the job.

Dec. 23-27, 2007 – Discovered that Megan has an 8 mm left ovarian cyst – likely a
dermoid that needs to come out for fear of torsion/twisting since it is so big. She is seen
by Mark Reiter’s group and Mark is arranging to have it removed on Dec. 31
laparoscopically by a woman in his practice. He will assist. He is giving her the VIP
treatment, but I know too little about the laparoscopic skill of the people in his practice. I
do not want to upset the apple-cart, but ordinarily I would get David Jacobs involved; yet
I do not want to interfere with the natural flow. David would probably insist that
someone else outside that practice do the procedure. Mark wants to be in charge since he
delivered Megan and feels a strong responsibility to her. I am conflicted and will hope
for the best.