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Skriven 2014-11-25 20:24:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: music or medicine 336
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-24-14  12:13 <=-

 ML>> - what royally messed up their medical records was not
 ML>> only did they both have the same medical insurance,
 ML>> they both had the same birthday (1/1).
 NB>> Same year as well...?
 ML> Different years, but when they ask for your birthdate
 ML> and the answer is January 1, mumble mumble, the niceties
 ML> sometimes get ignored.

True... generally the asker is already responding Oh, a New Year's Baby!
before one gets to the year... I know, having the same bd...  
 
 ML>> I just got a notice of his resignation from being
 ML>> chairman of my committee, though it sounds as though
 ML>> he will still be serving as a member.
 NB>> Hopefully in person.  Does sound like he's pulling back, though.
 ML> He's over 70 and in pretty rotten condition.

Probably just as well that he's pulling back...  I wish him well.  

 ML>> Just enough credit to make it inconvenient for someone
 ML>> else to claim it, so that when they do it becomes obvious.
 NB>> I look for the "moi", generally..  :)
 ML> You apparently look out for moi more frequently than I do,
 ML> then.

Isn't that what friends are for...?   (G)
 
 ML>> Same with music, though I've let a bunch of things go in
 ML>> both arenas, to my detriment on occasion.
 NB>> Composed or arranged...?  or just performance...?  Sometimes it
 NB>> seems easier just to let things go... not push one's self...  :)
 ML> I've never composed anything of note, har har.

har.

 ML> Several variations - people take credit for stuff I've done,
 ML> people blame me for stuff they've done, and people just lie
 ML> for the heck of it, even if it doesn't benefit them to do so.

Indeed.  Known people like that, too.

 ML> And it is easier just to let things go, but then things
 ML> sometimes escalate and/or come back to bite one in the butt.

Sadly, true... I prefer to let things slide when possible, but sometimes
that's not as wise as one hoped it would be.

 NB>>> I was thinking more the lives of the patients... but I suppose
 NB>>> that could factor in as well...  ;0
 ML>> Lives of the patients? Secondary except insofar as it
 ML>> affects the stats.
 NB>> More important than in private practice, anyway... 
 ML> Private practice has the additional check or balance of
 ML> the personal touch, though.

True.  And also fewer critically ill or unstable patients...
 
 ML>> The drug, as I now read, has some interesting effects,
 ML>> including neurological ones that can be permanent. It
 ML>> seems that my numbness and tingling are wearing off
 ML>> somewhat, so maybe the nerve damage is reparable in
 ML>> this case.
 NB>> One certainly hopes it repairs... and I'd be an awfully hard sell
 NB>> to take it again were it I...
 ML> One does. There are new numbnesses, though, somewhat
 ML> disquieting.

Definately disquieting... I've been getting an interesting numbiness in
my previously gouty big toe, not sure if it's a follow on from the gout
(or my body's handling thereof), or a reaction to something I've added
to the diet to deal with it... ;)
 
 ML>> apparently heard that I knew his father, and my treatment got
 ML>> ever so much more respectful; unfortunately, shortly thereafter
 ML>> the GI service got its fingers into the pie and messed everything
 ML>> up again.
 NB>> Sometimes it's useful to know and be known... but it only goes so far.
 NB>> Too bad it didn't reach into the GI service as well... 
 ML> And when ID came on line, that muddied the waters further -
 ML> but when their prime concern turned out to be a false alarm,
 ML> they went away.

Leaving you to the original service...?

ttyl       neb

... Taking something with a grain of salt may raise your blood pressure.

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