It was an eye opener for me to find that to get the best care, S and I need to be on top of her care, know her diagnosis and what the treatment options are.
Unfortunately, patients can't assume that medical professionals are going to provide the care that they (the patients) need.
Now, I think that this is due largely to the fact that medical professionals are overworked and spend way too much time wrangling health insurance problems. Yes, there are some medical professionals who are total douchebags who think that M.D. stands for "me, deity" who don't listen to their patients and end up hurting them. But they really aren't the norm.
Hell, often the biggest problem is that doctors are not as educated about pharmacotherapy as you would expect them to be. But they're too busy with patient care and disease management to stay current with medication trends.
If patients can't be their own advocates (due to lack of medical knowledge, or, you know, BEING VERY SICK [as that makes it really hard to communicate coherently]), they really really REALLY need someone to be with them to act as their advocate.
It sucks that you can't just assume that the default is the provision of the medical care you need.
I like other people to follow the rules.
Brilliant. I love that he used Oxford comma for the serial comma. And, it gave me my new tag.
It sucks that you can't just assume that the default is the provision of the medical care you need.
What really sucks is that most people don't know this, and just listen to their doctor as the Voice of Authority.
That grammar write up is hysterical. It's funny cause it's TRUE!
It sucks that you can't just assume that the default is the provision of the medical care you need.
What really sucks is that most people don't know this, and just listen to their doctor as the Voice of Authority.
Oh, good point. True dat.
Erg. Am home sick, with the kind of cramps from the deepest levels of hell that lead to actual pukage from the pain. Bleh. And erg.
If I follow the rules, I feel like other people should have to also. I have a friend who lives on a very narrow street where there is no parking. Her roommates insist on parking on the street because they get tickets rarely enough that they feel like it is worth it not to walk a block away to park. Of course one of them drives a very large truck and partially blocks the end of the driveway across the street. Now people on the street are trying to get them towed and for some reason they don't think this is fair. But if everyone did it instead of two people, you would not be able to get a car down the street.
I guess I see the grade thing as being the same situation because it only works if a few people don't follow the rules. If everyone asked for new grades, I suppose it would just lead to permenant grade inflation.
Pedantry.
Merci. I did look this up, and dictionary dot com told me it was "pedanticalness." Now I want to go get pedantic on their ass.
The why: Our high-tech conference room reservation system is a calendar taped to the conf. room door. Apparently someone said they hadn't reserved it because they didn't have a pen with them. So the secretary taped a pencil to the door, and put a yellow sticky reading PENCIL --> next to it.
That kicked off a flurry of sticky notes on the door, including "HINGE -->," "HANDLE -->," and "CARPET."
Then someone put a sticky pointing to those that reads "IRONY."
So I crossed that out and wrote "SARCASM." My colleague plans to add a "PEDANTRY" pointer to my note. "BUFFISTA" would obviously work just as well, but not make sense to anyone else.
Ha, you rules followers! I mock you and your faith in being enfranchised in an equitable system.
I had a college friend who got very very irate with me any time I got an extension on a paper.
She extrapolated that grades were competitive and translated into job opportunities. Which I don't think is true - we both graduated from Kenyon with a B.A. and that's all anybody would really look at. But I didn't care - I was only interested in writing the best paper and sometimes that took more time.
