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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIt's such a delight to be awake and not at work.
This entire recent work-week feels like a long dark tunnel from which I'm just now emerging.
Admin always overschedules me, counting on cancellations and no-shows to lighten the load but still making for an acceptable number of revenue-generating clinic visits.
And then there are the days when everyone shows up...
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,611 posts)You always do your best and some days, that's a LOT.
Enjoy your weekend! You have more than earned it.
Aristus
(66,328 posts)cilla4progress
(24,728 posts)Root of so many of our evils...
Enjoy your time off, Aristus. You earn it!!
Aristus
(66,328 posts)GPV
(72,377 posts)who keeps having to double as a sub. Very hectic and whirlwind situation. Draining, especially when I'm asked to do gym. I'm no spring chicken anymore! LOL
I can only imagine how much worse it is for our Healthcare workers. Enjoy your break!
Aristus
(66,328 posts)There's a job I could never do in a million years, and my hat is off, , to the people who can and do.
GPV
(72,377 posts)badhair77
(4,217 posts)Im a retired teacher and my last years were filled with covering for others. I can only imagine how bad it is now, especially with the anti-masking crowd micromanaging everything. Hang in there. Thanksgiving break is just around the corner.
GPV
(72,377 posts)have a few retired teachers on our sub list. One is in her 70s. I don't know how she does it, but she's amazing.
badhair77
(4,217 posts)Im very grateful for health care workers like you.
Enjoy your work-free time! Hope you have some sunshine. 🌞
chillfactor
(7,575 posts)you deserve it!
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...if the scheduled is not overbooked?
Aristus
(66,328 posts)But the schedule is routinely filled with patients on the hour, at the fifteen, at the thirty, and at the forty-five, so that shakes out to four an hour, and that's before double-booking.
If there are a lot of no-shows, I'll see fifteen to eighteen patients a day. On busy days, it's usually twenty to twenty-three.
My one-day record was twenty-seven, and that was in the first year I was in practice, long before I'd developed the time-management skills necessary to deal with that number of patients. I remember that, even by lunchtime on that day, I was curled up on the office couch, pleading "Make it stop, make it stop, make it stop..."
Skittles
(153,160 posts)you need to start talking more about topics other than work and drinking......may do you good
Aristus
(66,328 posts)Its just these are the only things going on in my life right now.