TM Response: Anger
I've been known to have quite the temper. At work, mostly. I really can't pinpoint one certain thing that angers me more than another. Some days it's one minor thing, others it's a combination of irritations.
I used to make lists of things that pissed me off when I worked in the ER on a regular basis. They kept me from losing it on more than one occasion. Incompetent residents, lazy med students, slow responses from other departments, belligerent patients, uncooroporative technology (including all medical equipment and computers) often rank high on the list.
Here's one I found in my desk a few days ago:
October 9, 1997
-Lax administration
-The County budget
-Chart cherry-picking
-Shift overlapping
-Nurse resistance to policy change
-Unorganized med rooms
-The underwriting of Doug Ross' fellowship by the ER
-Patients en route to gun shows
-Wives of said patients that give Jerry loaded artillery
-Jerry wreaking havoc on the ER with said artillery
-Unnecessary medical tests
-Nurses not clocking out on time
On the other end of the spectrum, I feel the need to admit I tend to get angry at being a single mother. It sounds horribly selfish, but it tends to rear it's ugly head from time to time.
I love my son more than anything, don't get me wrong. I don't know what I would do without him. Sometimes it's overwhelming having a two year old with no immediate family around for both Henry and myself. Sandy's family loves that little boy more than anything, but some of them are still cold to me. I have no problem with any of them, yet they still find fault with "his other mother".
I'm glad my son has his grandparents and aunts and uncles, but I can't help but wish my own family were around for him as well. That's probably what angers me most.
I used to make lists of things that pissed me off when I worked in the ER on a regular basis. They kept me from losing it on more than one occasion. Incompetent residents, lazy med students, slow responses from other departments, belligerent patients, uncooroporative technology (including all medical equipment and computers) often rank high on the list.
Here's one I found in my desk a few days ago:
October 9, 1997
-Lax administration
-The County budget
-Chart cherry-picking
-Shift overlapping
-Nurse resistance to policy change
-Unorganized med rooms
-The underwriting of Doug Ross' fellowship by the ER
-Patients en route to gun shows
-Wives of said patients that give Jerry loaded artillery
-Jerry wreaking havoc on the ER with said artillery
-Unnecessary medical tests
-Nurses not clocking out on time
On the other end of the spectrum, I feel the need to admit I tend to get angry at being a single mother. It sounds horribly selfish, but it tends to rear it's ugly head from time to time.
I love my son more than anything, don't get me wrong. I don't know what I would do without him. Sometimes it's overwhelming having a two year old with no immediate family around for both Henry and myself. Sandy's family loves that little boy more than anything, but some of them are still cold to me. I have no problem with any of them, yet they still find fault with "his other mother".
I'm glad my son has his grandparents and aunts and uncles, but I can't help but wish my own family were around for him as well. That's probably what angers me most.