2:38 PM
mood: seething
Well, I was all set to blog about how relieved I was that I never had to walk Cameron's file down to Human Resources. But then I found out that I had to take it down anyway -- first to finish processing her separation and then to process her return -- because otherwise she wouldn't be able do anything: no e-mail (I told Cuddy to just send her a g-mail invite but that didn't fly); no access to the hospital mainframe for lab and radiology results (I suggested that she could just use Chase's password, but none of them seemed to like that idea); no card for the parking garage; no employee discount for her daily salad at the cafeteria.
So I spent a couple of hours down at H.R., probably shaving a couple more years off my life from the stress of arguing with those idiots. Finally I make it back up and find out about this:
Physicians who want to obtain a medical license or be relicensed in New Jersey must take cultural competency training under a new law intended to help reduce health care disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.Legislators and medical leaders say they believe New Jersey is the first state to pass a law requiring physicians to learn how to be culturally attuned to patients to be licensed to practice medicine....
Under the new law, signed by Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey March 23, doctors must take cultural competency training before they can get medical licenses from the State Board of Medical Examiners. The approximately 30,000 physicians who already have a license will have to complete the training to renew their licenses.
So, let me get this straight: If I make a sweeping remark about... the tendencies of certain ethnic groups, I get hauled in to Cuddy's office and get my mouth washed out with soap. But if some moron running a workshop makes a sweeping remark about the tendencies of certain ethnic groups, I have to pay money to hear that remark -- and take a test on it -- in order to renew my medical license.
Okay, so little black kids are even more likely to have asthma than little white kids. Last time I checked, little kids -- white, black, Asian -- all sound the same when they wheeze. So wouldn't it make more sense to focus on getting some credit hours on learning how to better diagnose and treat asthma? And if they can't afford the inhalers, how exactly is making me go to a workshop going to fix that?
1 Comments:
HR... I always forget: are they located in the *second* or *third* Circle of Hell? LOL I know they're down there *somewhere.* ;-)
I really don't know what to say about the way Cameron's returning (“Bad Cammy, baaaaaaaaad!” doesn’t seem to cut it LOL), so I'll just change the subject, quickly. LOL Seriously, though, forced dates sound too much like 'forced marches' to me. I don't see how this can end well... Not at this stage of things, anyway.
Oh, well, whatever bumps, obstacles or rollercoaster rides may reside in the future, I'm rooting for you, Doc. Just be careful of your heart and ‘keep your hands inside the ride at all times…’ ;-) None of this stuff is *easy.*
I just hope, down the road, however things work out that it’s *worthwhile.* It’s a shame that everyone’s so damaged that, by the time they try to hook up with another human being, their cumulative individual damage often leads to eventual relationship *carnage.* Not *always,* mind you, but it’s a tough path, all the same.
Now, I happen to know you *rock* at "cultural competency" after the way you accepted that sweet Corvette from the Jersey Mob, so as to avoid offending their delicate sensibilities and winding up wearing cement shoes at the bottom of the nearest convenient body of water. ;-)
As for the rest of it, one of the things I've always admired about you, Doc, is that you display no racist or misogynistic tendencies whatsoever. Now, you *do* rib Foreman (and prod all the Ducklings for that matter in your unique style). But I'd put that in a similar category to your sarcastic exchanges with Cuddy.
You cultivate an attitude as if you hate human beings in general (or, so you'd like people to believe, when you've actually shown yourself to be a deeply compassionate man who will risk everything to save your patients) and treat every idiot or moron who comes into your clinic honestly and *equally.* ;-) And, once the shock of talking to you wears off, maybe they even appreciate that fact. LOL ;-)
As for PC type policies, they're generally geared more towards sound bites and photo ops than practical real world applications. Your methods couldn’t be described as being even remotely PC LOL, but you get the job done and save lives. Personally, if I needed medical attention, I'd rather rely on you than feel good up-for-reelection politicians and public relations officers. As you told Cameron, “weird works for [you].” ;-)
Sanlin
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