Monday, October 4, 2010

If My Doctor Friends Were Dead...

...they would all be rolling over in their respective graves. Peter Orszag, he of the White House Office of Management and Budget fame and believer that data should make medical people behave differently (Poppycock!) penned this op-ed in the NYTimes recently.

Having been on both sides of the fence as a recovering physician and, now, a business dude - I can't agree more.
  • ER Patient to me: "What do you mean the hospital is essentially closed on the weekend and I can't get a (hip replacement/diagnostic catheterization/IV infusion) treatment. That's ridiculous!"
  • Me: "I know! But I'm going home now. Cause it's late and I have the sleepies."
People get into accidents on Saturdays and deliver babies on Sunday mornings (#1Wife did) but, for some reason, the lab has 1/2 the number of people working. Asinine. In any case, this will be a excellent trend to watch - 10 (15?) years before it really takes hold with kicking and screaming the whole way. But it's the logical end.

Okay, enough serious stuff. Jacory and I hit Clemson, SC in, what can only be described as, a thoroughly successful weekend. First stop - take a picture of the rock. Believe it or not, this is a fully non-doctored actual picture I took with a phone. I ought to sell this to the Clemson propaganda people. In any case, it sure was purty Frydi naht (I can say that 'cause I live in Atlanta):


Town's best feature? $12.50 for two shots of Beam and 2 longnecks.


Brilliant. Like college again. But different. In that I can afford $12.50. When in Clemson...

After a quick portrait:


Whoops. You get the idea. Jacory, though very loosely affiliated to Clemson, wore the home shirt to keep harassment at a minimum (that's what I think anyway). The home team subtly meandered onto the field:


And promptly got whooped. Thank Jebus. I was one-for-four on these trips and am happy to be up to a .400 batting average. Two hours after the last lost fumble by Clemson, I was home giving TheBoy a bath and thinking how I was going to wrap Peter Orszag, Jim Beam and balloons into a single post. Done, done and done!

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