4:31pm May 19, 2015

FYI

iamthethunder:

I heard about medical scribes on the radio earlier this week.  Apparently, pay is decent, it is a growth field, and a lot of the job involves sitting quietly in the back of the room taking notes on a laptop, not talking, and making facial expressions as little as possible no matter what happens.  Some of you might want to check that out.

Wow.  Makes me wish I was well enough to work.  Well a lot of things make me wish that.  But when I go through the hospital and get different procedures, I get to see a lot of different people doing their jobs, to make the hospital run, and it takes so many different sorts of skills and different sorts of people.  I often think I’d enjoy working in radiology in some capacity.  But seriously, I get annoyed with medical TV shows that glorify doctors and make it sound like nobody else in the hospital exists, barely.  When, doctors do really important work, but the everyday work of cleaning, patient care, doing x-rays and other tests, drawing blood, etc., is all done by an army of people who rarely get any airtime at all, even though as a patient you see nurses and LNAs and respiratory therapists and radiology technicians far more often than you see doctors.

I still badly need to write my thank-you note to the housekeeping department.  And to the nursing/LNA staff on a few wards that did amazing care in the last few hospital stays.  Good nursing staff can make or break a “good” hospitalization.

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