wisdom

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
Thomas Edison

This quote ought to be posted on bulletin boards across the nation.

Today was a busy day.   Sometimes your day can be busy and if all goes right it was very good.   But if something goes wrong it shoots the day.   I have never figures out how someday's something can go wrong with every case.    It just builds up with each successive think to irk you and puts a dark cloud on the work day.

The place where I work; in THE eternal wisdom of a donor, was given a lot of money with the stipulation to build a heart center.   So for the past five years or so all the work and money was spent and a beautiful wing was planned for the heart.   The OR's are beautiful.   They are so big you could play basket ball in there.  Everything is state of the art, it is beautiful.   There are also two cath-labs.   A huge preop holding, and a CT ICU.    The play was to hire about 32 professional to staff this place.    The ads were placed, and the people interviewed and guess what.  They aren't coming because the pay is lower than they are making now.   Who would want to leave a job with your seniority, weeks of vacation and probably at the top of the pay scale.     And I know for sure that if the unit is not busy they will be "staff leveling"    That is the euphanism for sending people home without pay if there are no cases going on at the time.   Who would want to come to work and be "staff leveled????"

Out of the 32 or so available jobs they have hired 6 people.   And believe it or not one of the things that is highlights to interviewees is "free parking"    Like that would get me to quit and go somewhere else.................WTF are they thinking.

The also want to have an outpatient and OR satellite and there are not enough pharmacists.   What is the Answer???  Hire more pharmacists.   WELL, THEY JUST AREN'T OUT THERE.    The people in administration must think you can pull people out of their butts.   There is a law of supply and demand and the supply is not there and the salaries that are being offered are lower than the city.......Well we are not the city and we have free parking..   What point am I missing.   

One thing I can say for sure is that I am glad I am on the retirement track.