Thursday, May 20, 2010  Daily dose of frstration.  During class
this morning, a discussion arose regarding how hospitals fit
into the sociological (garbage) concept of "McDonaldization.
Now, first of all, heaven for bid if McDonalds doesn't run the
most successful company in the world, so to use that term to
clearly imply something that's wrong is, itself, wrong. In any
event, one of the other students commented that hospitals don't
fit the idea of "efficiency" because of long waits in the ER,
and started to bitch about it. Calmly I raised my hand, and
defended the imperfect hospital system. Not because I
particularly enjoy long ER waits, but because there simply is
not an endless supply of Doctors/money that hospitals can spend
on staff. Being sick sucks and the hospitals are doing the best
they can. This, however, wasn't the real kicker. The student
then dove into the whole "they don't even know my records from
previous tests so they have to waste time running more which is
so inefficient" bit. I won't disa