How do you like the new place?
Did you want the polite version I give patients “oh its a transition” and “we’re getting our routine down now”…… or do you want the no b.s. truth with some brutal honesty?
Cause I got a lot of honesty now that we’ve been working in the new building a week.
I see a HUGE drop in patients satisfaction. It’s sterile, “like an ER”, one of my patients remarked. I miss my living room feel of my old post op, where I got to listen to people about grandkids and vacations and gardening and and …. just weather sometimes.
I got to know so many regulars and a few repeat patients. As friends. I prided myself on a psychological trick called peak end theory. That’s all gone with this current building the curtain area is what I left behind at the hospital. And now patients are numbers, cattle again, move them in and out.
All that change for higher payments from insurance? God I hope not.
They’ve blocked every outside light source with blackout window coverings. I can’t. Literally I will go crazy. I’ve left work with headaches almost every day this week. Between the noise, no meditation music, amount of people in a small space. I’m ready to throw In the towel. Good thing I love the girls I work with. That’s the only thing that’s got better.
I can only take so much before I snap, I’m coming up on 6 years there. That’s been my normal limits for a job, pretty much my entire working career. I’ll give it 6 more months, but I’m already starting to look elsewhere pretty seriously.
The other job I recently got isn’t benefit friendly for a while, which is a huge selling point for me. I need a retirement and insurance to be able to sleep well at night. Well not sleeping well tonight… it’s past midnight.. ha
Reminder to self….
Adventures in Mitchell 