Manflu.
Posted by: Tony Lockhart on 30 September 2012
I sincerely hope I'm better tomorrow, as my job is quite testing both physically and mentally. I hate 'going sick' and haven't done so for over a year. Daytime telly, guilt, as well as being well under the weather isn't a good mixture.
I can't remember if music heals! Can anyone help on that?
Tony
Tony
Tony
Hi Mark,
I know how you feel. One incident I remember as a resident in Surgery was going to my dentist to have an x-ray on a wisdom tooth only for him to say he would extract it then and there under local. I arrived back at the hospital bleeding and swollen and spent all day in the operating theatre and the night in the hospital on-call. No sympathy from my boss or anyone else bar a lovely theatre nurse called Sarah who helped me feel better later that evening. 
Nowadays things are a little better. We have a 48hour policy for returning to work after a bout of D&V but generally I soldier on through most viral illness's mainly because I know I'll have twice as much work to go back to when I return. I even went back to work 3 days after having 5 tendons released in both hands.
Sorry about your experience with your mother.
ATB
Steve
Hi Mark,
I know how you feel. One incident I remember as a resident in Surgery was going to my dentist to have an x-ray on a wisdom tooth only for him to say he would extract it then and there under local. I arrived back at the hospital bleeding and swollen and spent all day in the operating theatre and the night in the hospital on-call. No sympathy from my boss or anyone else bar a lovely theatre nurse called Sarah who helped me feel better later that evening.
Nowadays things are a little better. We have a 48hour policy for returning to work after a bout of D&V but generally I soldier on through most viral illness's mainly because I know I'll have twice as much work to go back to when I return. I even went back to work 3 days after having 5 tendons released in both hands.
Sorry about your experience with your mother.
ATB
Steve
Yes, well I have come to the conclusion that when I consider the QOL, the student debt, the interest on said debt, and the opportunity cost while going to school, that pharmacy was basically a half million dollar mistake. I have only been out of school for not quite a year and a half, and I am looking for something else to do, I hate it that much, and they pretty much all treat their people the same way.
The money is OK, but not at the cost of everything else in life. Look at Steve Jobs - he had all the money he could want, but his health went and it did him no good...and I ain't making that much, especially in light of the $1,500+ a month student loan payment. Plus, it's not even a health care job - that comprises maybe 5-10% of what I do. But I better not get sick, or they'll be all over me like a hobo on a ham sandwich.