Slacking Off At Work
Friday, January 26, 2007
I should be working right now…
So i’m here in the General Surgery Outpatient Clinic right now. We just went live using the electronic medical record (EMR) system, so i’m on the floor supporting. But you know what? Nothing is really happening. I had no idea how many non-compliant patients there are that simpy don’t show up for appointments! Crazy. I mean, aren’t you getting a surgery done? Or didn’t you just have one done and need to get stuff removed? “Oh, i don’t mind that drainage tube. I kind of like it actually!”
So instead of helping people SAVE LIVES (or just remove a cyst or two), i’m sitting here using a COW (computer on wheels) to post. Nothing is going wrong. Everything is slow and methodical. There are a couple bumps but nothing irrepairable. It’s almost...boring. I even spent about an hour just shooting the breeze with this one doc whose last appointment got cancelled.
So the Rant is that i have no rant. How sad is that? The person who has an entire section dedicated to ranting, and i haven’t posted in a rant in months! What’s wrong with me? Have i lost my edge? Maybe there’s just too much to rant about and so it all becomes “normal” and therefore no longer worthy of mention. Hmmmm… Do i need more angry people in my life? Do i need more drama? No. Got enough of both of those. I think i need to live in New York again. Now *those* were some classic rants. Cockroaches, homeless people harrassing you for money and sexual predators making advances on the street. Ah for the good ol’ days again!
Anyway, i should thank my lucky stars that things have been going well enough that i don’t have anything specific to rant about. Except maybe traffic. Traffic sucks. Oh yeah, and my cow-orker/father-figure Jim is leaving to go to a different team. 
I’m sad! I don’t want him to go, but what can i do? So that’s worthy of a rant or two.
Sigh. Ok, well that’s all. I just wanted to keep you all in the loop.
kat, i’ve got an LA traffic rant for you. don’t you hate when people merge into YOUR lane, then get pissed off and have their passenger take the time to stick their hand out the window to impolitely flick you off? yeah and on a sunday morning… great.
Posted by on 01/28 at 02:34 PM