... are a freakin joke. So I decided to get some exercise as I was told by the doctor that walking and deep breathing is good for healing. I walked three blocks to Buffalo General in order to get a copy of my medical records to review. I had no idea how unorganized that part of the hospital is. I find it hard to believe that anything works well in the hospital if the information infrasctructure is such an unorganized system. I am not talking about medical records from ten years ago, I am talking about medical records from the last couple months.
The medical records system at Buffalo General is not completely electronic. There is this ellusive paper copy that has info that is not available everywhere else. The day I was in the hospital getting my appendix out I was supposed to be getting my Tissue Transglutaminase IGG and Transglutaminase AB (IGA) test to check for gluten intolerance at Quest Diagnotsics. So I figured, while I am already in the Er giving them blood, why not ask them to carry out the test as I was supposed to have the results for a April 24th doctor's appointment. My mother called and get the test names, we gave them to the doctor, he agreed, the nurse drew blood. Now there is no record of the test.
To make matters worse the desk clerk in medical records was this 20 something total bitch. She looked like and acted just like Karen from Will and Grace. If you ever read this, I hate you you mother fucking bitch, I hope this golden skanky, pointy shoes you have give you bunions and hammer toes.
I was nice because I was trying to keep stress to a minimum but I wanted to reach across the window, grab her hair and slam her face into the counter repeatedly.
All I asked her to do was print out my medical records for my and she kept gasping and saying how annoying it was. And the printer wouldn't work. It got jammed twice so she stopped and told me to come back in a week. Seriously, I can understand a printer malfunction, but the customer curtousy thing to do we be to offer to mail them to me, or say I am sorry about the inconvenience, not just get all angry with me for asking for my medial records.
It was totally ridiculous. Then I explained to her how every time I come to the hospital they have the wrong primary care physician for me. She said that she can't do anything about it, I have to see this woman named April down the hall.
So I go down the hall and enter Aprils office and this (sorry this is so unPC) extremely retarded looking woman acts like I couldn't possibly do such a crazy thing as change my primary care physican on my medial record. Right now I could swear she was drooling while telling me this, but maybe now I am blowing it out of proportion due to PTBGE Post Traumatic Buffalo General Exposure.
She seriously tried to convince me that I need to just tell them the new doctor' name every time I come to the hospital. So I ask for April and she starts howling, "April, April - this patient has a problem" - who is like 15 feet away. Could she not just get the fuck up or point to April so I could approach her politely.
I explain the situation to April and she says that she cannot do it and she has no idea why the Karen look alike down the Hall would have sent me there or how to change it. Finally, some other girl overhears and says I should try admissions.
So I go to admission and register and wait in line to be "admitted" and then finally there was a gay guy, who could communicate properly with a patient and was able to handle the change professionally, quickly and courtesly - shouldn't they all be that way. He also took the time to confirm my other information to make sure everything was right. I think his name was Paul too.
So you might be thinking that maybe I was mean or something that prompted all this. But I swear I was so super nice. I as in such a good mood, I could finally move around and it was sunny out, etc. It was really one of the worst customer service experiences I ever had. They really need to read, "If Disney Ran Your Hospital." In fact I am considering bringing my copy down next week when I stop at medical records and throwing it at "Karen's" face, lol.
And for some comic relief. I know I don't have a huge one, but they didn't have to call it "grossly negative", lol.
I have heard that the shortage isn't really one here. It is that since the price went up everyone just freaks out thinking there is a shortage in rice. The reason to not sell more then a few bags is for two reasons. One they don't want people buying a bag for say $20 (times 10 or even 20) Then the price goes up to $40 but since everyone hoards them no one can offorid to buy them. The other thing to is that if you buy a lot of them now you could resell them later for a profit and undersell them but still make money, that is illegal by the way. The second reason is that assume there is enough rice for everyone in america to have 3 bags each well when people panic and buy 8 or 9 not to mention places that sell food then that would cause a shortage for other people, or that is my theory at least. In terms of the ethonal thing I say people should use Pure Alcohol. In terms of corn why can't people make a sky scrapper and grow it hydroponicly? The other way of making it is by taking oil from places like McDonalds after it has been used and then it can be filtered and that should be looked into more.
If you inherit the land Janelle, I think you should start growing tortillas on it. We need more tortillas.
(e:dcoffee), I suspect that as gas prices get higher and higher, the market will probably price subdivisions on farmland out of existence.
I grew up in the midwest. In a subdivision that sits on what used to be farmland. Everytime I go home there's a new subdivision cropping up on what used to be corn and soybean fields.
It's such a complicated situation. The farmers' children grow up and don't want to farm; land and farming equipment is too expensive for the rare young farmers who actually DO want to farm, so they end up sharecropping in a sense; the farmers grow old and don't know what to do with their land and the developers beating on their doors offering millions for the land seem like a good way to go after years of barely making a living off the land.
My family owns farm land planted with soybeans, canola, and corn by farmers in the area. We've held out on selling it to mega hog farms and developers. When it's mine, I'll keep holding out. But I wonder if our children will do the same.
Let's stop building sub-devisions on farmland. And lets stop using corn and sugar cane to make ethanol, People and farm animals eat that stuff, and when the price goes up we have big problems. Instead we can fuel our cars with Switchgrass and Hemp. This is one of those problems created by lobyists who want the price of corn to go up, so they bully the government into subsidizing corn ethanol more, and ignoring innovation on other renewable fuels.
Tiburon, that was a grade A rant. I wonder, would China stop giving us money if we made it more difficult for our companies to move our manufacturing jobs there?
uh seriously? man i stopped watching the news because i was sick of the obama hillary battle and now we are out of rice and tortillas. This blows.
Actually that tortilla shortage started last January: :::link:::
But the global food crisis is deadly serious and getting worse. For a long and occasionally technical (a few economics concepts) overview, the Economist has this piece this week:
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Watch the news for all of the poor, underdeveloped countries experiencing civil strife as a consequence.
someone at work today said that mexicans are starving to death b/c there is a tortilla shortage, secondary to a wheat shortage due to ethanol production for cars.
I hope he was joking.
what the hell is going on? Shortages of gas, wheat, rice, everything! Our money isn't worth crap, we're borrowing $2billion from the Chinese to give tax rebates which won't do any good, we're like $7 trillion in debt, it just doesn't end :(
We desperately need some radical action...stop giving out aid, stop sticking our noses in other nation's affairs, mind our own business, and stop pissing off the rest of the world! Basically, we need to be Canada. They should attempt a buyout of us.
whew, sorry for going into a rant there!
I don't like quinoa a tenth as much as I love rice.
I meant can't substitute for rice, not can't play nice... but maybe I did.
Can you eat barley or oats?
Can't
Paul, Quinoa.
Quinoa, Paul.
Now you kids play nice.
how scary is that? NPR did a week long series on the rice shortage. maybe the end is near. if that is the case im totally moving into the masion. i feel like a pmt/ho army could kick some serious ass. id consider including mike visco if jill is included too.
Just get multiple bags of basmati from the Indian store. They get tastier as they get older and drier.