The good, the bad and the ugly.......ok, I have finally found something I don't like about working for this company. They have something called access to care which means pts get seen on the same day they call if they so desire. Not such a strange concept...but, it's the way they do it. The 4:30 appointment slot for days and the 7:30 appointment slot for evenings are the overbooks-all of them for the day! They don't work them in throughout the day...they dump them all in those two slots! Tonight I was evenings and I had five overbooks at 7:30-that is on top of seeing patients every 15 minutes since noon. But, I couldn't feel sorry for my self because the east team evening person had FOURTEEN overbooks at 7:30....that's 14 people in that one appointment slot. I think the way it works is that they all have to be there at 7:30 and wait but you have to call them three times before you consider them not there. That means my last patient which I got to at almost 9 pm had to be called until she presented or until she was called 3 times-she wasn't there the first time so we had to wait and try again! This is very customer service oriented but it is hard on providers-one person calls it abusive. For sure you can never plan something for the evening because you never know when you will get out of there! I left at 10 pm tonight and still have 20 charts to dictate (at least I get overtime-I would really hate it if I was a full time provider and didn't get overtime!).
That's the bad on to the ugly-the wind blew like nuts today! It blew the snow around and it looked like glitter blowing in the sunshine (well, that's not exactly ugly!). But, it blew the snow off the trees and now they just look like winter trees. The snow is fine and dry so it is like dust in Texas and behaves much like dust in a West Texas sandstorm.
Of course the good is that it was really beautiful-I mentioned the glitter appearance before. The other thing was that as I drove to work it looked like smoke was raising off all the mountains! I was in awe...I finally realized it was the wind blowing the snow up into the air! I wish I had my camera!!!
Speaking of cameras-today I received the picture above of me at Mt Denali from the young middle eastern man I mentioned before. He also sent a great picture of the mountain I will post later.
Well, it is after 11 pm and I have about 2 plus hours of dictation so I better hit it!!!