morning thoughts

School Related - To whomever scheduled multiple conflicts into my anatomy student's schedules that require them to change class times, lab times or just plain miss parts of my class/lab and the class/labs of someone else, I'm coming to kick you in the face. One person wouldn't be so bad but over a half dozen??

TV related - I'm ticked that House isn't going to be on again until Feb. And last night's eppy was disturbing to me for reasons that would not have disturbed 99% of the viewers. No it wasn't the ... cut for spoilers ( Read more... )

it was House having to meet with the medicaid reviewer. (okay that's a spoiler but hardly a main plot point, just a reason to get him out of town) God the nightmares that brought back.

Most of you don't probably know that medicare/medicaid review all our billing to make sure we aren't defrauding them. Fair enough. One of the things they look at is are you doing the same procedures all the time. Um guess what if you're a specialist like I was you DO perform the same procedures all the time. That's why you're the damn specialist. Just like House's cases were all class 5 in complexity (which is the highest paying) all of mine were either palliative/preventative care or debridement of wounds. I'm a wound care specialist. Do you want to know how many times my records were flagged? Wanna know how scary that is? Let me put it this way, in Florida alone the federal governement committed hundreds of cases of fraud to prove fraud where it didn't exist, took back over 10 million dollars that were NOT fraudelent charges, lost dozens of doctors their practices and some even went to jail before someone put the brakes to the gov. I was planning on leaving medicine even before I was injured for this very reason.

My web Page

Just in case anyone cares to look at my faculty web page, as weird as it is since yes I'm proud of my weirdness and don't care if the students know, head here. DocDana. It needs more links for science (since it has well none at this point) but you get the basic idea.

some of the day's strangeness

I had to make up all the orders for the lab. Nothing like ordering 20 dead cats to start the day off topped off with a side order of frogs and eyeballs...

Then I had to go to Jackson because my VCR no longer tapes sound. It sounds like adults on Peanuts. Well I can't afford a DVR and I don't need or want a dual dvd/vhs system. All Wal-Mart has (which is my ONLY option for 60 miles) is a Sanyo for 50$. i see it this way. Yeah it's cheap but I can buy FOUR of them for the price of one combo set and six+ for the price of a DVR. I'm content. But the weirdness arose when I realize that I stumbled out of the house (I'm beat today) in my ratty jogging pants and sweatshirt with no bra. It's warm so I have on no jacket. I dont' realize this until I'm there and I'll be damned if I drive back 12 miles to change. Of course another professors spots me in the Wal-Mart.

I then proceed (still shamelessly bra-less) to the library. Apparently every young adult in Jackson loves manga as much as I do. This little bible belt library has a ton of it. There was nothing left on the shelf. I snatch up the last Eerie Queerie before a horde of locusts uh, YA's descend on the manga kiosk and pick it even cleaner. I've never quite seen the like.

I stop on the way home to get some Long John's for dinner snce I'll be damned if I'm cooking tonight. So there I am trying to unlock my door, VCR under one arm, library books under the other, LJ's dangling from my wrist when the two outdoor cats who think they're mine run up and decide. OOOO fishy pinata for us. I have a stuck lock on my door. I'm trying to get it open before the cats are into the food. The cats race in before me. I round up the critters and put them back out with some left overs to make them happy.

My parents proceed to make odd calls to me. Mom has gone to a dinner but it's not until next week. Dad has forgotten he told me the story of Cabela's early in the week so he and mom are on two phones arguing about it back and forth while asking me. (mom wins) I'm too tired to even think and I have a long day tomorrow. Whimpers.

And some conservative newsletter sent me their magazine with a no postage due envelope to sign myself up for more. I filled it with extremely liberal stuff off the net and mailed it back to them with no address of mine on it....

And I'm going to top the night off with a little boy on boy manga I picked up at the library...who says life's no fun if you come in at an angle?