Habis you become doctor FOR WHAT
Feb. 5th, 2009 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmjewelleSo a colleague (let's call her K) was doing a night call a while back:
1. She receives a blood sample from ER around 2 AM.
2. She runs it, and it gives an abnormally low reading.
3. Concerned, she calls the consulting doctor at 2 AM; the doctor tells her to repeat the test with a new sample.
4. She goes and retakes the sample; the readings are normal (seems since ER took the sample, they took it from a drip vein, which might've affected the readings).
Mistake averted, all is good, life goes on right?
WRONG.
K receives TWO complaint letters: one from the consulting doctor, one from management.
- Doctor complains about BEING WOKEN UP AT 2 AM OMG. Hello, you're a DOCTOR. You're supposed to be ON CALL FOREVER. If we can't consult you because it's YOUR PATIENT, WHO are we supposed to consult? If the first result was released because we didn't want to wake you up, wouldn't you make a pissier fit??
- Management makes a complaint because the doctor complained to them. Their complaint? For wasting valuable lab resources. Like ELECTRICITY (for machines that run 24/7). And REAGENTS (for tests that take up a few DROPS of 4L worth). And TIME (because suddenly we don't need to be accurate ANYMORE). Hey management, how about we don't have a LAB anymore? Then you won't have to worry we're wasting precious electricity on machines that, you know, help DIAGNOSE your patients? Let's just have all the doctors sleep and telepathically read their patients' blood tests using REM, that'll TOTALLY save costs during a recession!
Fuckers.
1. She receives a blood sample from ER around 2 AM.
2. She runs it, and it gives an abnormally low reading.
3. Concerned, she calls the consulting doctor at 2 AM; the doctor tells her to repeat the test with a new sample.
4. She goes and retakes the sample; the readings are normal (seems since ER took the sample, they took it from a drip vein, which might've affected the readings).
Mistake averted, all is good, life goes on right?
WRONG.
K receives TWO complaint letters: one from the consulting doctor, one from management.
- Doctor complains about BEING WOKEN UP AT 2 AM OMG. Hello, you're a DOCTOR. You're supposed to be ON CALL FOREVER. If we can't consult you because it's YOUR PATIENT, WHO are we supposed to consult? If the first result was released because we didn't want to wake you up, wouldn't you make a pissier fit??
- Management makes a complaint because the doctor complained to them. Their complaint? For wasting valuable lab resources. Like ELECTRICITY (for machines that run 24/7). And REAGENTS (for tests that take up a few DROPS of 4L worth). And TIME (because suddenly we don't need to be accurate ANYMORE). Hey management, how about we don't have a LAB anymore? Then you won't have to worry we're wasting precious electricity on machines that, you know, help DIAGNOSE your patients? Let's just have all the doctors sleep and telepathically read their patients' blood tests using REM, that'll TOTALLY save costs during a recession!
Fuckers.
