Work.......
Our caseload has fallen over the past couple of years quite a bit. However the acuity and difficulty of the cases that we are doing has increased substantially. So, now we've gone from never having a day off to worrying about our job security. Life is really something sometimes.
One of the surgeons was gone on sabbatical for a couple of years to start a new program at his former university. Although as a human being outside of work, I really like this man, he drives me insane on a daily basis at work. I've had a know in the left side of my neck ever since he got back in July. I beginning to doubt if it will ever go away.
He seems to be bent on trying every new modality that he has ever read about in his entire life. This includes the modalities used in journal articles where the entire patient population was ONE. If I wanted to live on the edge this badly, I could have been a fighter pilot!!!
I've been on call this week and had to sit him down and explain the fifteen reasons why we could not try a new anticoagulant on a possibly emergent patient he had in the CCU. Now first of all, just getting him to sit down is similar to trying to get a 3 year old with ADD to put his shoes on. He is the kind of man that walks away from you while both people are still talking. Then we had to look at the journal articles that he though proved his case. Of course he has like nine articles that he wants me to read. I told him to pick the best four, as I wasn't spending my whole evening reading about something that wasn't going to be workable. He does this, probably without looking at what he is giving me. The first article specifically talks of the failure of this particular anticoagulant in the very procedure that he wanted to attempt. DUH!!! Then why are going to try it???? He makes me tired. I'm sure he is going to be the death of me one of these days.
Also, my two coworkers seem to be intent on disagreeing with each other over just about everything and anything from the roots of Christianity to where the garbage cans should be stored. Now if they would keep this between themselves, it would be fine. However, I end up feeling like the middle child in an arguing family. More about them later.
I'm going to the movies to watch something totally frivolous and probably worthless....we'll see.
One of the surgeons was gone on sabbatical for a couple of years to start a new program at his former university. Although as a human being outside of work, I really like this man, he drives me insane on a daily basis at work. I've had a know in the left side of my neck ever since he got back in July. I beginning to doubt if it will ever go away.
He seems to be bent on trying every new modality that he has ever read about in his entire life. This includes the modalities used in journal articles where the entire patient population was ONE. If I wanted to live on the edge this badly, I could have been a fighter pilot!!!
I've been on call this week and had to sit him down and explain the fifteen reasons why we could not try a new anticoagulant on a possibly emergent patient he had in the CCU. Now first of all, just getting him to sit down is similar to trying to get a 3 year old with ADD to put his shoes on. He is the kind of man that walks away from you while both people are still talking. Then we had to look at the journal articles that he though proved his case. Of course he has like nine articles that he wants me to read. I told him to pick the best four, as I wasn't spending my whole evening reading about something that wasn't going to be workable. He does this, probably without looking at what he is giving me. The first article specifically talks of the failure of this particular anticoagulant in the very procedure that he wanted to attempt. DUH!!! Then why are going to try it???? He makes me tired. I'm sure he is going to be the death of me one of these days.
Also, my two coworkers seem to be intent on disagreeing with each other over just about everything and anything from the roots of Christianity to where the garbage cans should be stored. Now if they would keep this between themselves, it would be fine. However, I end up feeling like the middle child in an arguing family. More about them later.
I'm going to the movies to watch something totally frivolous and probably worthless....we'll see.