OK, just to clear it up... the last line in Yesterday's entry was intended to be sarcastic, not misinformed.

I'm getting too old to be doing the job that I'm doing. I ran my legs off last night. No, the vascular disease isn't creeping up on me again... the old fucking age disease is leaping at my throat. It was the kind of night that would've killed a younger man, though, or (a little foreshadowing here...) driven him to kill.

But I was cool. Well, relatively speaking, I was cool.

The problem was... my x-ray room was being used as a patient room. All of the other rooms were full, it seems. Yeah, it was a hard night for everyone...

But I do all of my x-ray patients in that room, and I am damned fast in there. However, when I have to drag the patients down to the main department... and I'm the one who has to take them, else they'd never get done... and it takes me twice as long to do the exam, and then I have to send the images over to the ED machine for viewing (or wait for the films to come out of the processor, and then I have to take the patient back to the ED... and then I get blamed for slowing their patient flow down!

If they had a lick of sense, they'd figger it out.

The traumex room (the x-ray room I am referring to) is the key to efficient radiology delivery, especially when there's only one tech there.

When it's used as a patient room, it increases their capacity by 10%; in essence, it just merely takes a patient out of the waiting room... they still have the same number of nurses and doctors providing the care, they're just spread thinner. So it doesn't improve their through-put any at all.

And it knocks the hell out of mine.

And there are some techs (actually, most of them) who refuse to shag patients to and from the ED; they will sit and wait for the nurses or whoever to deliver the patients. I don't do that... I can't do that. Even though that's the way it's written in the book, I can't do that.

I try to be a team player with the ED, a lot more than anyone else on other shifts. It means a lot to the entire patient care delivery system... and I feel that some people are being deliberately obstructionistic. Being obstructionistic via ignorance is one thing...

OK, enough of this rant. I still love my patients (to a certain degree...) and will continue doing the best job I can while I still work there.

Even if it means sacrificing what is left of my wobbly legs.

Well, maybe I won't quite go that far. I have resolved, however, to make more frequent use of my on-call compatriots, and not try to do everything by myself... unfortunately, that means waiting 30 minutes until they get there... I've found that, by working fast and smart, I can usually clear up any mess in that length of time.

O'yeah, I said enough of this.

Well, dammit, I don't have anything else to talk about. I certainly didn't have time to enjoy the wonderful weather. I got a really bad day's sleep yesterday, too, which doesn't help the mood any at all...

Kim called yesterday morning... Lacee's eye was hurting her and almost swollen shut. After listening to Kim for a while, I thought that it might be a sty, and told her to take Lacee to the doc. She did, and it was, indeed, a sty. And she felt much better by last night, but I haven't had an update yet today on her. I need to call Karen, I missed calling her before she left for work this morning...

So I just called Karen. She answers the phone, "Customer Enrollment, this is Karen, how can I help you?" so I said, "I'd like to enroll in your sex class..."

Anyway, Lacee is better, she went to school today. I hate it when she's sick... she is such a bad patient!

More tomorrow... I got to rest these legs, the demon doc is on tonight and tomorrow night...