Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Twelve

Number of jobs created or saved with the stimulus package (comes to 71 million per job).

Total number of minutes I have truly enjoyed the ED over the past few years.

Kids' ballgames missed this past year working 2 jobs.

Scans ordered to satisfy patients and attorneys last week.

I-phones answered by self-pay patients during my exam this weekend.

Family members giving irrelevant history on a chronic COPD bounce back from 24 hours ago.

Cases of crotch rot seen last week not prevented with a 75 cent piece of rubber.

Number of ED shifts I am obligated left to do.

In the words of the immortal Shirley Q. Liquor.... "Tell your mama and 'em I said hello."

8 comments:

  1. I love Shirley Q!!

    How yo Mama be durrin?

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  2. I love Shirley Q too!!

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  3. 12 = number of cardiac surgeons, pediatric surgeons, vascular surgeons, neurosurgeons, and plastic surgeons who will be practicing under Obamacare in ten years.

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  4. 12 - the dollars Medicaid pays me for seeing a patient (if I'm lucky).

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  5. Another one leaving the trenches? Maybe I should take our veterinarian a cake or something. Probably wouldn't hurt to get in his good graces before he is the only health provider left ....

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  6. 12 - the number of ways to skin a cat

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  7. 12 The number of new forms to be filled out per patient to satisfy JACHO mandated patient safety goals and never events

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  8. Spoke with my SIL today. Her sister, a primary care doc in flyover country, AND her husband, another FP, have negotiated to sell their private practice. Sale to be completed in June. They are moving to Australia. That's 2 fewer PCPs providing care due to Obamacare.
    CardioNP

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