"Move" is a four-letter word
I'm sorry to have been AWOL for so long… I have just finished moving…for the 5th time in 5 years.
It's all my husband's fault. It's a horrible time to be a doctor. Every employer allows their doctors to see four patients per hour. That's 5 minutes before your appointment to look at your chart, 5 minutes with you, and 5 minutes to write about what he or she talked to you about.
So if you've noticed the quality of your health care declining, that's why… it's horrible. And, as a doctor, it's equally horrible. My husband AND his partners all quit together from a hospital in Cincinnati to protest their horrid illegal and immoral practices. At least it got their attention.
Unfortunately, the NEXT hospital thought paperwork is more important than patient care. So we moved again, to a hospital that does not allow my ADHD, people-loving husband ANY assistants to help him get paperwork done AND actually treat people for their ailments….
Well, you get the idea. My life has been a lot of cardboard boxes for too many years. Which makes it hard to write books OR stay on top of things like author profiles.
So, I'm going on strike! Since I just got 5 years of constant packing and unpacking and settling in and getting the garden just right - in time to put the house on the market - I want 5 years with NO cardboard, and the time to write more books, and talk to readers!
So, please, if you have any questions about my books, or about what it's like to work in health care these days, or about moving, or about how to make friends in new places, please ask! I want to feel like a writer again, not like a moving company...
It's all my husband's fault. It's a horrible time to be a doctor. Every employer allows their doctors to see four patients per hour. That's 5 minutes before your appointment to look at your chart, 5 minutes with you, and 5 minutes to write about what he or she talked to you about.
So if you've noticed the quality of your health care declining, that's why… it's horrible. And, as a doctor, it's equally horrible. My husband AND his partners all quit together from a hospital in Cincinnati to protest their horrid illegal and immoral practices. At least it got their attention.
Unfortunately, the NEXT hospital thought paperwork is more important than patient care. So we moved again, to a hospital that does not allow my ADHD, people-loving husband ANY assistants to help him get paperwork done AND actually treat people for their ailments….
Well, you get the idea. My life has been a lot of cardboard boxes for too many years. Which makes it hard to write books OR stay on top of things like author profiles.
So, I'm going on strike! Since I just got 5 years of constant packing and unpacking and settling in and getting the garden just right - in time to put the house on the market - I want 5 years with NO cardboard, and the time to write more books, and talk to readers!
So, please, if you have any questions about my books, or about what it's like to work in health care these days, or about moving, or about how to make friends in new places, please ask! I want to feel like a writer again, not like a moving company...
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Nov 11, 2022 12:39AM
I hope that by now you have been able to settle down. I had no idea that doctors in the US were experiencing something of the same as doctors in the UK experience.
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Anna wrote: "I hope that by now you have been able to settle down. I had no idea that doctors in the US were experiencing something of the same as doctors in the UK experience." Oy! So my romantic notion that health care is so much better in all the rest of the industrialized world is wrong. Thanks for sharing that. It's oddly comforting in a way, to know it's not a uniquely American kind of stupidity. But I'm sorry you're having to deal with the same bad medicine!
You are definitely not alone! All I can suggest is that we each try to make our own small corner top notch.
...and fight to make sure you get the health care you need! I have had to jump up and down and yell to get my annual pap smear. Because healthy normal people only need them every five years, now. As for a two-time cancer survivor like me? Well, you don't get one, anyway. Because we don't care and we aren't listening. Just give us your co-pay for this doctor visit.
