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Good morning everyone!

The Milk Drinker only woke twice last night and didn’t wiggle excessively in his sleep. Yay! Wish we could have slept in longer, but I have to work. Boo.

In other news, the chickens seem to be liking the warmer weather. They are all out and about, scratching and foraging. This is the most chickens I’ve seen out in a long time.
 
Pumpkin muffins got ate, but have banana, blueberry, strawberry, croissants, anything :).Weather 49 dull, drizzly, high 56. As posted low temps by week end :mad:.True to the saying PitbullMama they won't know how good they had it, till you're gone. As of Thursday I'm all yours, word of warning ;).Yup 2 more days, radiation done :celebrate:bow:wee:woothappy dance. I best not get to excited I might tinkle :lau
 
....and I forgot to upload the picture I took of my happy, foraging birds.

ETA: looks like I caught my Buff rooster mid crow.

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Anansi said:
Unfortunately the medical clinics want 15 min appts for everyone. I'm a medical assistant and lost my job because i couldn't get a 5-7 min average rooming patients. Think about it, with rooming time being, at best, 5 mins, you get at most, 10 mins with your provider for your appt, most of the time regardless what you have going on. Don't expect to be seen for more than one thing, and if you have more than one thing to discuss, prioritize them and only bring up the top 2, unless you can get a longer appt. It sucks, because a lot of people have stuff that takes the medical assistant more time to go through, and more tome for the doctor to go through. A good reason doctors run late is because they are taking care of their patients properly, but the system goes by numbers. Patients are not people, they are dollar signs, and provider productivity is determined by how many patients they see daily. The place I was at til Friday made it painfully clear. Every day there was an email that gave the statistics, who met their "goal" and who was running late and why. They also kept track of how many prescriptions were written and how many of those were sent to the clinic pharmacy, because that was more $. Literally, the system was a community healthcare center, but the primary goal was to keep the shareholders happy. We were told to do as many services that were due as we could for every visit, "because we don't know when the person will come in again." That is counter productive to the "5-7 min average rooming time." Yes, I understand that doctors want to see patients as soon as possible, but there needs to be a balance. Yes, for the simple patient that is healthy, nothing major going on, etc., it can be done, but not every patient is simple. Many are complicated, and there are some doctors that make them even more complicated than they need to be. I kinda feel I got shafted, because I had 2 days a week with a provider that made most patients more complicated than they needed to be, in part because of the "we don't know when they'll be back" thing. Instead of letting the patient's provider deal with non-urgent stuff, she tried to do it all. Instead of waiting for records or even finding out where to request records from, she wanted them now, and I was supposed to request them from public health if the patient had a name that suggested they might be a refugee. Yep, just what I want, to spend time requesting records when I don't know where to request them from, or sending the request to public health and have them waste time looking for records that may not even exist in their system.

Ok, rant over, sorry.
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One of my biggest pet peeves about going to the dr. I hate feeling rushed and like I’m a number to get past. I wonder how much better the health care system would work if it listened to the people.

Suzi18 said:
Just saw the forecast for this weekend...:eek::eek: We are going back down into single digits with a possible foot of snow! FNF and Apryl......what the tater!!! What do you 2 think of our decision to live in Ohio? :he
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Weather channel shows single digits at night and teens in the day for the weekend. The wintery mix forecast is bull taters!
Lived in Ohio my entire life. Within a 30 min radius.... can’t imagine living anywhere else.
 
Anansi said:
Unfortunately the medical clinics want 15 min appts for everyone. I'm a medical assistant and lost my job because i couldn't get a 5-7 min average rooming patients. Think about it, with rooming time being, at best, 5 mins, you get at most, 10 mins with your provider for your appt, most of the time regardless what you have going on. Don't expect to be seen for more than one thing, and if you have more than one thing to discuss, prioritize them and only bring up the top 2, unless you can get a longer appt. It sucks, because a lot of people have stuff that takes the medical assistant more time to go through, and more tome for the doctor to go through. A good reason doctors run late is because they are taking care of their patients properly, but the system goes by numbers. Patients are not people, they are dollar signs, and provider productivity is determined by how many patients they see daily. The place I was at til Friday made it painfully clear. Every day there was an email that gave the statistics, who met their "goal" and who was running late and why. They also kept track of how many prescriptions were written and how many of those were sent to the clinic pharmacy, because that was more $. Literally, the system was a community healthcare center, but the primary goal was to keep the shareholders happy. We were told to do as many services that were due as we could for every visit, "because we don't know when the person will come in again." That is counter productive to the "5-7 min average rooming time." Yes, I understand that doctors want to see patients as soon as possible, but there needs to be a balance. Yes, for the simple patient that is healthy, nothing major going on, etc., it can be done, but not every patient is simple. Many are complicated, and there are some doctors that make them even more complicated than they need to be. I kinda feel I got shafted, because I had 2 days a week with a provider that made most patients more complicated than they needed to be, in part because of the "we don't know when they'll be back" thing. Instead of letting the patient's provider deal with non-urgent stuff, she tried to do it all. Instead of waiting for records or even finding out where to request records from, she wanted them now, and I was supposed to request them from public health if the patient had a name that suggested they might be a refugee. Yep, just what I want, to spend time requesting records when I don't know where to request them from, or sending the request to public health and have them waste time looking for records that may not even exist in their system.

Ok, rant over, sorry.
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Get it out there, you will feel better. I lost my job because i filled a prescription for a lady who worked in our office for 15+ years and was running out of BP medication before she could get an appointment as a new patient with the doctor. I have seen it done endless times before. How was i to know they didn't like her and didn't want her as a patient? I had permission to fill patient rxs as long as they had an appointment set up and the rxs were currently on their medication lists.
Anyway, after busting my butt for this company for about 10 years, they fired me. I was so hurt, cried and cried. I even took the Drs dog to the vet on my day off when their kid busted its leg!
Anyway, once they realised all i was doing there...they wanted me back. NO WAY IN HELL!
I worked at other drs offices but it was not all that long before i retired. Doctors suck, mostly. Healthcare is broken but no one is going to fix it.
 
MORNING!!!! I will take an apple fritter if anyone has any!

:hugs Ana..... so sorry..... I hate feeling like cattle... never thought about you as a cattle rustler feeling bad too..... :(

:wee Misty... crossing my fingers and toes that the next 2 days go extremely well for you and Hubs..... Keep him well fed and let him know the cosmic karma of the Squatches are in his corner!!!

LAW AND ORDER BINGE-ATHON STARTS IN 5 MINUTES!!! WHOOT!!!
 
MrsMistyReal said:
You have a gorgeous home, you're so blessed. :love
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Thanks. I love the property. the building you see in the picture is my parents' house and garage. Our home exterior (an old farm house) has been updated to match their house. We still have a LOT of work to do on the interior. My FIL has been working to get 1/4" plywood down on the floor to keep cold drafts from coming up through the original floor. Of course he is getting finished right around the time the cold snap ends. :) (my in-laws live with us)
 

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