It's such a delight to be awake and not at work.

[Aristus]

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]

1. I am so happy for you right now, my dear Aristus!

You always do your best and some days, that's a LOT.

Enjoy your weekend! You have more than earned it.

[Aristus]

3. Thanks, CalPeg.

[cilla4progress]

2. Effin' for-profit health care system!

Root of so many of our evils...

Enjoy your time off, Aristus. You earn it!!

[Aristus]

4. Will do, cilla.

[GPV]

5. I'm not running as flat out as you are, but I can relate as an educator

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]

7. I'd say the exact same thing about teachers and substitutes.

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]

10. Thanks! It's an adventure, that's for sure. :)

[badhair77]

8. GPV, Thank you for all you do as an educator.

I’m 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]

11. Thank you! Fortunately, I'm working as a 1-on-1, so have little prep work to do after school. We

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]

6. So glad you have a break.

I’m very grateful for health care workers like you.

Enjoy your work-free time! Hope you have some sunshine. 🌞

[chillfactor]

9. Glad to hear you are enoying your day off....

you deserve it!

[3catwoman3]

12. How many patients per day are you expected to see...

...if the scheduled is not overbooked?

[Aristus]

13. My contract says three patients an hour with fifteen minutes of admin time.

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]

14. Aristus

you need to start talking more about topics other than work and drinking......may do you good

[Aristus]

15. I agree.

It’s just these are the only things going on in my life right now.