LAZINESS AND CLUELESS TEACHERS IN HIGH SCHOOL

Laziness

Some of my co-workers this morning were complaining about something sticky on the floor in our break room due to someone spilling something. An hour or two later I go through the break room on my way to the toilet and the stuff is still on the floor. Now when my co-workers were complaining none of them had a patient, when I went through I had a patient waiting on me in the exam room. But on my way back after washing my hands I got some paper towels wet and dropped them on the floor and used my foot to clean up the mess, it took me all of about 2 or 3 minutes. Did they even think about cleaning it up? No," it's not there job. " I swear these people at times are worse that 3 year olds.

Clueless teachers in high school

Today was my daughters first day as a junior in high school and for the most part had a really good day, with one exception. Her English III teacher seems to treat them like very young kids. I thought my daughter was exaggerating until I read the course syllabus. This teacher wants the young adults to have reading logs that their parents have to sign. Surely, I'm not the only parent who is encouraging at least a little bit of independence to get their 16-17 year old ready for the real world. My daughter's reading level had been beyond the high school level since the fourth grade. I sent her counselor an email requesting someone that would challenge her abilities. We'll see what happens.

Words to describe a late patient: rude, lazy, inconsiderate, self-centered, selfish, slothful, apathetic, impolite, slow, thoughtless.

Why do some people even bother?

OK. This lady comes in right at her appointed time at the end of the day. And surprise, surprise, there was a line. I know that I've said in the past that if you show up right at your appointment time, you're LATE. The clerks were backed up and she didn't sign her paperwork until 25 minutes after she arrived. She was pissy the whole time. At some point she left the office before I could come and get her, so when I went to get her she wasn't there. I should have gone and turned off my machine then and made her reschedule, but I didn't. I waited a few minutes and she returned to the office and then made me wait while she washed her hands. WHATEVER!!! If that made her feel better about waiting, fine. Then I get her in the exam room and she's not very interested in answering the survey questions. Really, I'm not being nosy the questions determine the patients breast cancer risk. I do find out that she has had breast cancer in the past but doesn't know how old she was at diagnosis. To me this is a pretty significant life event and personally if it had been me, I would remember my age at diagnosis. She had obviously had a lumpectomy. Again if I were a breast cancer survivor and only had a lumpectomy I'd try to get my whole body in the machine. However, she was trying to pull back as I was trying to position her breast in the machine, making it difficult to image her whole breast. Her lack of cooperation only hurts her, I was only able to get a limited exam. Upon further questioning, I found out it had been two years since her last mammogram. So my question is: If you're not going to cooperate with the technologist why come?

My take on Christina Applegate. I think it was a great move to have a bilateral (both) mastectomy. Personally that would be my choice. However, breast MRI's as a screening tool, I don't agree with that. It has been found out that the breast MRI's as a screening tool shows too many false positives. The MRI works better if it has a specific area to target.