Monday Night Wine Buzz...

[Aristus]

DON'T JUDGE ME!...

Rough day at work...

I think the schedulers are trying to kill me. I was filling in for two other providers who called in sick today, and I think they put all of the previously scheduled patients for both providers on my schedule today. I'm not kidding. At one point this afternoon, I was triple-booked.

I told myself I wasn't going to have a drink until pub trivia on Wednesday. But I came home and downed the rest of my bottle of Yellow Tail Cabernet...

[elleng]

1. OY!

[Aristus]

3. Thank you, elleng...

I'd like to get more buzzed, but I'm out of wine.

And Mrs. Aristus is stationed between me and the liquor cabinet...

[Kimchijeon]

2. Oh dear, I can't judge you

On the contrary I raise my glass in good company.

Cheers to Monday the 13th, we made it! We made it! We survived!

[Aristus]

6. Thank you.

And, ignorant of your prior DU user name, I'll just say: Welcome to DU!

[Phoenix61]

4. This is how my days used to go...

Arrive at work at 7:30 - I'm not going out tonight
by 9:00 - maybe I'll go out for just a beer
by lunch - 2 beers is looking better and better
by 4:30 - leaving work
5:00 - at the bar running a tab
I miss my clients but my co-workers? not so much.

[Aristus]

7. Sometimes I wish I could drink on the job.

A la 'Mad Men'.

But in clinical medicine, that's a bad idea...

[Phoenix61]

10. Yeah

I think the Air Force mental health clinic where I worked would have had an issue with me doing that too. But dang if it didn't cross my mind some days.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Aristus!

That is completely wrong for them to do that to you, of all people.

Triple-booked?

Omigod.

Drink up!

[Aristus]

8. I complained three times to the front desk supervisor.

And once to the clinic manager.

Nothing...

I think the last four or five patients were put on the schedule by the front desk just to fuck with me for complaining about it...

[GP6971]

9. They did that to my wife

and she finally put her papers in to retire. She had the fallback of SS so don't know if you have that option.

[Aristus]

11. I've only been in practice for 6 years.

Long way to go to retirement.

And I love practicing clinical medicine. They just need to ratchet back the number of clinic visits per day. Today's count was one patient short of my one-day record. The more patients one sees, the less time we have to spend with each patient. And you can't practice good medicine that way.

[GP6971]

12. I went to the Dr. after 5 years of not seeing one

Long story which I won't go into here.

The Doctor never examined me...never took a stethoscope, pulse etc. Very prolific at typing on a laptop my comments though.

I will say, she was very proficient at manipulating the network system. I'm in a Network plan and both my surgeries last year were coordinated very well.

Times have sure changed.