ita !, that's
nuts.
Bad enough having to figure it out by piecing together bits of info from a bunch of unrelated sources, but you're dealing with a single self-contained hospital system. No reason on earth why everyone in the system shouldn't have the same info. Utterly ridiculous.
Amy, it's the lowest dose available. But it is available at that dose in another form.
I just... I'm not a programmer or coder or anything but an end user so I really don't know from experience, but... every drug manufacturer on the planet has a gigantic web presence, not to mention FDA and DEA. And more and more places are moving to e-script programs, of which there aren't that many. It doesn't seem like it should be that difficult to set up some kind of... I don't even know, subscription? Where a manufacturer reports a recall to FDA and DEA (including if/when the recall ends), and once a month or whenever the recall list is included in whatever periodic updates the escript programs have to run anyway, triggering a red flag any time the recalled product is entered in a patient's profile. Microsoft and Adobe and Java and a jillion other programs run constant updates, where once you've registered your copy of the application it contacts you and, once you click "OK," does all the rest of the updating and correcting and patching for you. It's not perfect, but it more or less works. Is there some obvious reason I'm not seeing that this would be not just hard but impossible for escript systems?
Also, strangle away! You can blame the PF and the 'roids, and if you get a jury composed entirely of editors they'll probably not only acquit you but give you a medal.
JZ, I hope your doctor's office can rewrite the script and get you the meds you need.
'suela, that is maddening. I know you will kick ass during the interview and if the dog barks, the dog barks. There wouldn't have been a dog to bark if they had met with you face to face. (I get the reasons why not, but still).
I am over 80 hours for the pay period, so today is just keeping an eye on my e-mail and making sure nothing goes pear shaped. I won't get paid unless I do more than 3 hours of work today (we don't get paid any overhead overtime hours).
Seriously, I'm going to write the rules of grammar ON this writer. Or possibly tattoo them.
I hope you get the inhaler soon, JZ. It's so stupid that even in this age, so many things get missed. I was also shocked that when S. went to fill my Prednisone, the pharmacy was out. I mean, it's Prednisone. How do you run out of something that basic?
Do we have any Bay Area Buffistas with publishing experience? This job was listed in Publisher's Lunch today: [link]
Dang, Justin Timberpants was shooting something down the street last night!
You know how lasers often have warning stickers or signs on them? This is the best one ever:
Danger
For people who like motorcycles and/or steampunkish things:
Steampunky concept motorcyle - Boing Boing
Very pretty.
That is perfect.
I hope Consuela is being "hired" on the spot for her job....
This is a cool idea I never would have thought of.
HOWTO recover your stolen car - Boing Boing
Oh, and here’s a tip I hope you never need: if your car is ever stolen, your first calls should be to every cab company in the city. You offer a $50 reward to the driver who finds it AND a $50 reward to the dispatcher on duty when the car is found. The latter is to encourage dispatchers on shift to continually remind drivers of your stolen car. Of course you should call the police too but first things first. There are a lot more cabs than cops so cabbies will find it first -and they’re more frequently going in places cops typically don’t go, like apartment and motel complex parking lots, back alleys etc. Lastly, once the car is found, a swarm of cabs will descend and surround it because cabbies, like anyone else, love excitement and want to catch bad guys. Cabbies know a lot of stuff*. I found a traveling shoplifting ring in Phoenix once. Professional shoplifters always take cabs. So do strippers going to work but that’s another story.
