Recently I have met more than my share of frustrations lately – teaching a 10-year-old how to play chess when he simply cannot remember the rule of the game, not to speak of the tacts and strategies of this mind game.  At office frustration level went up when I encounter a different level of stupidity.

I often see people reporting adverse event like this — “cold/headache” or “CHF/pulmonary edema” or “CHF/kidney failure”  Are they two separate events or one causing the other?  In either case, we cannot report adverse event like this. Medical records are legal documents which is no place for any ambiguity like this.  Incidents like this often make me wonder what these people were thinking when they did it.  I had to spend a lot of time digging through thick records determining which is which.

Even more stupid than this is — the patient that I have spent so much time on was not my patient.   Frustration goes up to sky high when I think of so much of my precious time being wasted on someone else’s responsibility. 

When reflecting upon this piece of my work experience, what can I say to my children?  Well, avoid getting yourself down to this level in the first place.