This may sound like a bit of a rant- but I am becoming very, very frustrated at work right now. This has been a conversation my house-mates have been hearing for the past 2 weeks, but it seems that everything hit a climax today when I had to stand in the room as the doctor performed a breast exam pap-smear on a 350 lb woman. I have worked every day this week weighing and taking the blood pressure, vitals, history, and complaints of these absurdly unhealthy patients. A huge number of them come in complaining about diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, trouble with their legs and back...etc. They then go on to talk to me about how it runs in their family, how a certain accident led to their pain, anything they can use to blame for their deteriorating condition other than their own personal habits. Then, the doctor, who at this point only has 10 minutes maximum to treat everything that ails this patient, walks out a few minutes later to tell me to call down a number of prescriptions for this patient to pick up. Instead of helping them become healthy, they give them drugs to suppress the actual problem- not that the patient would want to do anything that takes actual effort to help their well-being anyways, but still! Either way, I am having difficulty watching these patients walk in and walk out with a list of 15 prescriptions that they are on for every one of their ailments (prescriptions the taxpayers are paying for since most of these patients do not have insurance- but that is for another time).
Ok that is all. Off my chest- my housemates are sick of hearing about it, and I am sick of letting it consume me- but ugh- vive America.
Yeah, F the fatties and freeloaders! That's my motto.Turns out there was some good old-fashioned Williams alliteration there too. Nice.
ReplyDeleteSo I am a huge bum and lazy as all hell and stilll need to get you that usb drive. Very dismayed to find out / recall that you are across the country for the time being. Shouldn't affect shipping prices too much.
Things are going pretty well for the most part, but we should definitely catch up. Glad to hear you are doing something interesting at least for now. I'll call you later (on my way to Williams suckaaaaaa).
Cam
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