Do you have a full-time job?

[garbon]

Got fired last week

What'd you do, man?

Indeed! Can't help those who won't help themselves.

[KRonn]

Decent medical, low cost for me as I use the hospital system's insurance plan, which includes all my doctors as one of the hospitals and many doctor offices are in my hometown.

I will admit working for medical systems totally sucks ass pay-wise, because if you're not clinical you're lower than whale shit, but damned if they don't have the best healthcare benefits available.

Good point. As for me, I work in IT, application support for the financial and medical systems, so the pay is decent. Has to be to attract the various network, hardware, application, and all other sorts of people needed to run so many IT systems for a health care network with many hospitals, doctor offices, clinics. There are a lot of people behind the scenes needed to keep the systems going..

[Caliga]

I was out sick for a month then a couple other weeks later on.

Wow.   You ok now?

[Caliga]

Good point. As for me, I work in IT, application support for the financial and medical systems, so the pay is decent. Has to be to attract the various network, hardware, application, and all other sorts of people needed to run so many IT systems for a health care network with many hospitals, doctor offices, clinics. There are a lot of people behind the scenes needed to keep the systems going..

Yeah.  If some of those systems go down, people can die, and that would be expensive.

[KRonn]

I was out sick for a month then a couple other weeks later on.

Wow.   You ok now?

Man, I was pretty sick! Pulmonary embolism, blood clot in the lung. Probably lucky it didn't kill me. In hospital for five days, then at home recuperating for a few weeks. I was sore for a day or so, thought it was back pain or a strain. Then it woke me up one night, real bad, and I knew it was something else. It was in my chest, tough to breathe, figuring it was something like pneumonia. So I went to the hospital. Foolishly drove myself, realized afterwards that I should have called an ambulance.

[CountDeMoney]

Man, I was pretty sick! Pulmonary embolism, blood clot in the lung. Probably lucky it didn't kill me. In hospital for five days, then at home recuperating for a few weeks. I was sore for a day or so, thought it was back pain or a strain. Then it woke me up one night, real bad, and I knew it was something else. It was in my chest, tough to breathe. So I went to the hospital. Foolishly drove myself, realized afterwards that I should have called an ambulance.

Goddamn, son.  Very lucky it didn't kill you.
My friend's wife actually had two of those happen at the same time driving home one night.  She will never win the lottery, since her remaining horseshoes fell out of her ass that night.
I don't see a Mega Millions in your near future either.

They put you on Coumadin?  If so, gotta watch that shit.

[KRonn]

Man, I was pretty sick! Pulmonary embolism, blood clot in the lung. Probably lucky it didn't kill me. In hospital for five days, then at home recuperating for a few weeks. I was sore for a day or so, thought it was back pain or a strain. Then it woke me up one night, real bad, and I knew it was something else. It was in my chest, tough to breathe. So I went to the hospital. Foolishly drove myself, realized afterwards that I should have called an ambulance.

Goddamn, son.  Very lucky it didn't kill you.
My friend's wife actually had two of those happen at the same time driving home one night.  She will never win the lottery, since her remaining horseshoes fell out of her ass that night.
I don't see a Mega Millions in your near future either.

They put you on Coumadin?  If so, gotta watch that shit.

Yeah, I'm on Coumadin/Warfarin, or as I call it, rat poison since I think there are similar ingredients in both.   

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, I'm on Coumadin/Warfarin, or as I call it, rat poison since I think there are similar ingredients in both.   

Be careful cutting veggies in the kitchen then, or shaving.  It could kill you.

My Dad's best friend had to be put on that stuff recently.  Broke his heart, because it meant no more motorcycling.

[KRonn]

Yeah, I'm on Coumadin/Warfarin, or as I call it, rat poison since I think there are similar ingredients in both.   

Be careful cutting veggies in the kitchen then, or shaving.  It could kill you.

My Dad's best friend had to be put on that stuff recently.  Broke his heart, because it meant no more motorcycling.

Yeah, I try to be more careful.

[barkdreg]

Got fired last week

What'd you do, man?

I was a bartender. Owners of the restaurant used to be a couple. One of them liked me, so the other one didn't.
I really like the fact that about half the staff resigned after I got fired.

[Eddie Teach]

So you had an affair with the boss's wife, huh?

[sbr]

Good point. As for me, I work in IT, application support for the financial and medical systems, so the pay is decent. Has to be to attract the various network, hardware, application, and all other sorts of people needed to run so many IT systems for a health care network with many hospitals, doctor offices, clinics. There are a lot of people behind the scenes needed to keep the systems going..

Yeah.  If some of those systems go down, people can die, and that would be expensive.

I work for an electrical contractor at one of the largest hospitals in the Portland area.  One of the first projects I did there was in the Emergency Department and there was some Clinical Technology^TM stuff in my way that had to be moved, but I had no idea what it was.  I called the guy in charge and he came down to look; when he got there he asked if I was ready to move it.  I said 'yes' and he said that today was time for an "unplanned outage" drill and just starting unplugging shit everywhere.  I almost had a heart-attack, but obviously the stuff was pretty low priority stuff-patient monitoring, nurse call and some other "non-essential" stuff.  It still cracks me up every time I see the guy.

[Grey Fox]

I'm on vacation right now but I still have a full time job.

[Vricklund]

Good point. As for me, I work in IT, application support for the financial and medical systems, so the pay is decent. Has to be to attract the various network, hardware, application, and all other sorts of people needed to run so many IT systems for a health care network with many hospitals, doctor offices, clinics. There are a lot of people behind the scenes needed to keep the systems going..

Since a couple of years back I happen to be in the same line of work myself. Just out of curiosity, how far along are you with bedside scanning?

[KRonn]

Good point. As for me, I work in IT, application support for the financial and medical systems, so the pay is decent. Has to be to attract the various network, hardware, application, and all other sorts of people needed to run so many IT systems for a health care network with many hospitals, doctor offices, clinics. There are a lot of people behind the scenes needed to keep the systems going..

Since a couple of years back I happen to be in the same line of work myself. Just out of curiosity, how far along are you with bedside scanning?

Yes, the medical people use bedside scanning. For instance, they'll scan a patient's wristband, then scan the bar code on the meds they're giving which will confirm the correct meds. Things like that and more, such as part of the Medical Admin Record. I don't deal as much with the clinical side though.