Crazy Days

I can't think of anything to write. That is why I haven't blogged all week. My life this week has been fairly boring. Unless you call the crazy work week I have had unboring. The last couple of days have just been the kind of days where you just have to laugh, wondering what else can happen. These usually are reserved for full moon days. I know that is probably a myth.

So, anyway, the last 'how many' Fridays we have had a shortage of doctors, at the clinic that I work. For some reason, none of them seem to want to work Fridays and then we end up with about 2 out of 9 providers working. Well, of course, that makes our jobs as nurses and receptionists that much harder. How are these 2 doctors supposed to see every patient that wants to come in. We do the best we can, but then you end up with the ones who don't make appointments ahead and just come in and expect someone to fit them in or treat them without being seen. This makes for some really ornery nurses some days, because they are the ones that have to triage them and decide which ones we will work in now and which ones can wait until later at urgent care. Then there are the ones that seem to show up just when you think you have worked to capacity and have a laceration or fracture and you know they definitely have to be seen. And, not just one will show up most times, there are usually 2 or 3. It's really bizarre. Then you add the babies who decide to be born at the most inconvenient times. That leaves you trying to work in the patients from one doctor to another doctor, because the original one has to go deliver that baby. Then to top things off, after you have turned people away because the schedules are full, someone has the nerve to not show up for an appointment. Now isn't that frustrating, you could have seen someone else in that time frame. I guess I could go on and on with the stories.

But, don't get me wrong, not everyday is like that. There are days that go smoothly where everyone that needs to be seen, is seen, and everyone shows for their appointments. And, we really do like to put the patient first. It is just those inconsiderate ones that make your day frustrating. Especially the ones that are in the frame of mind that they are the only patient that a doctor has and that they are the only ones that have serious health issues. I don't want to belittle their ills, but they should realize that there just may be someone else sicker than they are and those patients made appointments ahead of time. And, the doctor or nurses are not just sitting around waiting for them to call or come in.

Well, that is enough of my venting. I guess I had someone to talk about after all.