...while you were sleeping...
This is going to be an excellent night. My favorite doc is on in the ED, my favorite radiologist is on call, and the weather is just perfect... like a cool, crisp autumn night.
Now if there is only something decent to eat in the cafeteria, life will be wonderful. Well, life is wonderful anyway, good food would be icing on the cake.
And I got another good days sleep yesterday, about eight hours.
A couple of quibbles, though... the job that I want is not going to happen for a while yet... one of the VPs, who is in charge of MIS (Management Information Services) thinks that the job should be under MIS. And the guy in charge of the lab thinks that it should be under the lab. My boss and I think that it should be under radiology. If it is anywhere else, the needs of radiology shall continue to be secondary, which is what the problem has been all along. If MIS was able to do what we need to have done, they could've been doing it all along... and it hasn't happened. The lab is pretty well tied to one computer system, and we got dragged along with them by our last director (big mistake)... we need to have a radiology systems manager, and I'm ideal for the job. However, if it doesn't happen pretty quickly, I've gotta start considering other options. There have been a coupla jobs at the other hospital that I've not applied for...
Yeah, you've guessed it.. nights are wearing me down.
And I love working nights, and I love taking x-rays... but physically and mentally, I can't continue doing it forever. Or even a helluva lot longer.
Later....
Once again, I am so impressed with our staff in the Emergency Department. A (relatively) young lady came in with chest pain; tests were ordered routinely, and Tod from respiratory was there to do the EKG. He handed the chart to the doc, the doc looked at it and said to get some lines (IVs) going. Within seconds, there was a lot of stuff going on... the gal was having an MI. Very soon, the TPA was going and the cath lab people and the cardiologist were on the way. Her lesions were ballooned and she was on her way to the ICU within an hour.
Pretty damned good service; I'm proud to be a part of it. Probably more so since I've been on that cart before without the full realization of what was actually going on. A lotta stuff has to happen really quick to get a good outcome... and our record is better than most.
Karen called the doc yesterday, but she told him that she had a sinus headache, and he prescribed antibiotics for her... which is OK, but is not going to solve the ongoing problem... which is her persistent belief that it's her sinuses when she has absolutely no sinus symptoms other than facial pain which migrates back into her head. I've got to talk her into getting a workup... enough of this prescribing stuff sight unseen. She's starting to worry me a lot.
Again later...
And it was as slow as I thought it was going to be. I'll 
admit to being bored... well, bored is not the right word... more like amazed at the inactivity. I found interesting things to do and interesting people to talk to, so I wasn't really technically bored.
Home late, as is getting to be usual on Fridays... nobody comes in at 07:00 for some weird reason... Karen and Kim and Lacee are going to KC for the weekend, so I'll be batchin' it. I'll have to stay home mostly, though, because I put an ad in the paper again for the vehicles. Gotta get rid of them!
More tomorrow...