Introversion

Have known I was an introvert all my life, but this is pretty succinct, and has a sense of humor...

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch?ca=0aveuVsO8PwfJHjAQ0qKEW7PnFcrBptE29Z2ByLMSMo%3D

The Pozo-Seco Singers

For the record, this is one of my favorite albums, well the second half of the double album in this CD. A special favorite is "Mary Jenkins" which seems to relate a sinfgle day in a woman, probably a mother, burying her son in the aftermath of either WWI or the Civil War. I find it and "Johnny" unutterably poignant. You can find the combined album at either:

http://amazon.com or http://cduniverse.com .

Mom bought it around 1969 and I played the hell out of it during my Simon and Garfunkel period in the early 1970's. If you've never heard it, treat yourself, especially, "Mary Jenkins."

Toxic Work

Finally came clean to my new boss and myself that this place feels toxic anymore. It's not about how good you do your job, it's about micromanagement. Don't know if it's this way at all hosptials but it feels as if (in modern medical management) the tail is wagging the dog. The business part of medicine has overwhelmed the calling of medicine, and belive me, it is a calling. How else at 0300 with your hand up someone's butt trying to retreive some object that shouldn't have been there to begin with? I don't mind that aspect of the job per se, it is rather that the management of hosptials now is left in the hands of business professionals rather than anyone who actually understands that no matter what the DRG's say to you you can't send home an eighty-five year old with a new pelvic fracture on simple pain meds and expect that she's gong to get better. It ain't gonna happen and money or no money the lady needs to be in the hosptial. This country is going to have to decided if little 'inefficient' hospitals are worth saving or do we need to close down all these smaller places in favor of the MegaMedCenters that will be miles away when you need them. Perhaps that is what the taxpayers of this area do want, but I think they'll regret it when they have that emergency in the middle of the night.