Fix It From the Outside

My hand slipped

BEN AFFLECK Jan 04 2024

i went to get my t-shot yesterday and it took me an hour and a half to get to the clinic and as soon as i got on the bed the nurse dropped my t-shot and it broke and now they're trying to make me pay for the replacement. i think the fuck not lmao

update: i phoned the clinic and was icily polite at a receptionist, who got very flustered and said no less than five times, "well, that's certainly a conversation we can have at some point!"

no, actually, i think this is a conversation we'll be having now, and the outcome of that conversation will be you paying for my medication. hope that clears things up :)

never underestimate the power of just being kind of a nuisance

For everybody else's future reference: pharmacies and clinics have insurance coverage for damaged and unusable medications like this.

Trying to push this off on a patient isn't just wrong, it's double-dipping.

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

excellent news: that boring thing you rely on working reliably has an exciting new app. well. it's kind of an app. it's actually more of a website, it looks like a website, but you have to download it as an app. why does it have an app? well because it makes the receptionist's... oh, the receptionist seems to hate it. the receptionist doesn't understand the app either, and now it has broken, and now the two of you are navigating this situation without the app. don't worry, though. you will have another fucking app in a few months and it will be the same app with a new logo for some reason

Yes, I work in medical records. No I am not IT for MyChart, you'll have to call the evil tech bros at 1-800-EGG-HEAD

This one time a MyChart update made it so patients could see every comment on every telephone encounter and upper management had to send out a reminder to all employees not to be assholes in patient charts. They had to open a whole new complaint department. It was AMAZING.

Recently a beta version of the Midmark EKG viewer that was supposed to be rolled out to specific Epic superusers only was rolled out to EVERYBODY and crashed everybody's PCs and it took us a week to recover.

when I went to get medical ketamine infusions the doctor (who was operating independently, this was not a management thing) made me sign up for some off brand mychart (for what? she can't keep track of her dozen patients in a file cabinet? all she did was ketamine infusion) and the app mailed me a password they had made up for MY account, in plaintext. I threw such a big tantrum they redesigned the whole thing. anyway that's the level of basic data security + HIPAA medical app designers are operating on

Management: we’re moving to web-based Epic over the weekend!! Get ready for a major update!!

Monday morning: epic goes down for HOURS. zero employees are surprised.

there was a great article a few years ago about the absolute shambles the hospital data security field is in because of requirements that every single employee use their own individual logins at every single computer AND change their passwords every two weeks. the time it took to log in and out while also trying to do normal shift was impossible. naturally this resulted in simply leaving one nurse logged into the entire ward all week, or leaving passwords around on sticky notes, which is why you should never complain about passwords left on notes next to computers in video games

i also want to do a full blue hawke run. theyre so lame (affectionate)

you hunt down the infamous champion of kirkwall and theyre literally just the parent friend who keeps telling everyone to hydrate. “damn i wonder what the champion’s thinking about” they’re thinking about a bad pun they took six hours to generate and whether it would still be funny to say (it wasn’t funny even when the conversation was actually happening). and whether or not they need to buy milk. varric had to cut half of this out of the book because it’s too embarrassing. yes their kill count is in the thousands

they’re like if the most illegal person in kirkwall was the personification of the “walking around with me is like walking around with someone who’s running for mayor of nothing” bit

more modern viewers rly needs to learn the thousands years old tradition of “hes a cunt and a menace but i want to see what he does next”

“I hope he dies. slowly and painfully (affectionate)” has been a cornerstone of storytelling since ancient times come on now

steps into a big pot of bubbling oil and sits there like its a hot tub and i snile at you so nicely that you step in after me and youre immediately boiled til theres nothing left

well you see,

the sniler

sustainable.

innovation under capitalism

i do not ghost purposely i just have no idea what to say ever

and i have no concept of passage of time

It should 100% be illegal for companies to make you give them your payment information when you sign up for a free trial version of their product. It is not necessary and there is no good fucking reason for them to do it. It’s blatantly just so they can steal forgetful customers’ money.

oh hey, thanks for reminding me to cancel a free trial i had going on.

Reblog to save an unnecessary charge cause it also reminded me to cancel a trial lol

"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years

today i learned how they vaccinate sheep and OH MJY TGOD

gotta put the sheep in the sheep chute to shoot the sheep

never have I ever seen a creature so passively Not Having A Good Time before

When a lamb is stuck it'll just Sit There. They won't struggle unless they think they can get away.

#these poor things!#there HAS to be a better way

Poor things? They're fine. This is like a baby in a car seat. The sheep are not in pain, they are not overly uncomfortable, they are not unusually scared. They probably are a bit annoyed. But this setup isn't hurting them or straining their bodies in any way. It's shaped specifically to hold their limbs out of the way without hurting their back, hips or shoulders. It's 'plastic cone on a cat with stitches' level of inconvenient, for a handful of seconds, and it's certainly much safer and easier than the other method (trying to restrain the lamb on the ground with your arms and knees while carefully giving it a delicate vaccination).