Perils of modern living in the office

If you have e-mail, it just might get hacked if you open attachments you shouldn't. I'm so glad one of my technical people actually confirmed my suspicions recently. Our mail has been terrible. The issues we have with technology are scary, but not surprising.

My latest issue: some of my coworkers want to be exempt from policies and procedures that can cause issues with billing some services they provide. This is another example of following the chain of command. They do it (or suggest it) so I have to make their boss aware of the situation. It sucks, frankly, when these same folks could have been doing this job (they've been dodging) for a few years now, had they let me put the resources in place.

More construction starts at the Hotel. We got some equipment (they forgot until I asked and money was found) for our exam room, so once we get our security devices (probably next month) we can officially say construction is over in our office.

Bye, bye convenient parking when the monsoon comes through later this week. Guess I may actually start wearing my backup scrubs. Our parking lot shuttle is a joke. I often see them at the local Wal-mart. Last time I checked, Wal-mart was not our parking lot.

Patients will be patients. They are now asking pointed questions and so it makes our lives very interesting everyday.

Off I go to another exciting day. Stay tuned.

Nuggets for March 24

Time flies when you're having fun. Oh, it's been a barrel of monkeys around the Hotel.

For the first time in a very long time, the booking agents have no one scheduled. Hooray! It may have something to do with the requirement that you be on xx isolation to get in, but...oh well!

Since we're on the animal theme (I almost typed aminal...weird) here are a few selections from my latest meanderings on the 'net.

Enjoy your visit to the zoo!

From the blogosphere....

Man Nurse Diaries just made me think of hippos when I saw his post about HIPAA. You'd be surprised how many people in East Bohunk think HIPAA is HIPPA or HIPPO.

At Your Cervix has some great wildlife photos recently including a bald eagle. Cool!

Maha lost her kitty over at Call Bells make me nervous. So sorry to hear that...18 wow!

They're not animals...
But there's a special species of human in some of these places.

At Serenity Now Hospital, ER doc sees some interesting things in the country in his post Only in the country: drugs don't lie.

Tex has some great photos from Wal-mart over at Weird Nursing Tales. And to think, she probably just needed a candy bar and the gift shop was closed!

Field trip!

Bubba is on one today at school, and if I had time to hang out, I'd take this to my nearest Wal-Mart just for fun. Many thanks to mylife1060 at Hell on White Clogs for this little gem. Enjoy!