They connect to allow the vitals to be pulled into the EMR to allow continuous documentation of vitals for the anesthesia record or central patient monitoring. More and more frequently, the database is not onsite and is shared amongst several sites within a hospital system.

Except they’re also giving it to their kids, who are far more susceptible to the diseases

Just defending their borders against aggressive neighbors

Agreed about the finale. It seems like it was hastily drawn up to create a potential new series (possibly Section 31). It all just felt like it came to an immediate head, and ended up too pretty.

Finished the last season of lower decks. Still not sure how I feel about the ending. Definitely going to have to give it another watch or two

Giving Disco another try. Made it through S1 and half of S2. Oddly enough, definitely enjoying it more this time, still my least fav.

Darkest of Days. You’re one of Custer’s soldiers at Little Big Horn who gets recruited to be a time cop and travel around the timeline fighting in historical battles with ridiculous futuristic weapons to create “balance” or something.

That’s a full-on Burt Meownolds 'stache

Gross, olives.

Definitely. Nurse anesthetists are rarely employed by the hospital. We almost always work for an anesthesia group as a W2 or 1099. Pay can be better for some traveling gigs though. It’s a little different than RN contracts and pay though.

I was thinking the opposite. I have 1 option for “high speed” in my town, and it’s $90 for 12Mbps that rarely actually gets to that speed. I just barely switched to starlink and it’s been amazing.

I really do enjoy my job. There are definitely stressful aspects, and the occasional jerk I work with, but by and large I like it. I work as an independent contractor nurse anesthetist at like 15 different facilities. Every day of every week is different, so rarely gets too boring. I like the variety of facilities and cases I get to do. Hours are usually not too bad. I’m at a place in my career where I rarely work nights, weekends or call unless I volunteer. I only work the days I want, and can take as much time off as I want (no paid vacation though). My bosses are really chill and great to work for.

I’ve recently been offered a different position that is at a single facility, only a handful of case types, steady hours, also no nights weekends, holidays or call, and it comes with a substantial pay bump and paid vacation. All of which is tempting. But it’s been hard to make the decision because I really do enjoy my current job.

Sorry, I mean the “collective we.” Of course individuals do build compassion, but look at the state of America and tell me that the collective we is different than I stated.

Totally wouldn’t work. We Americans believe in a brotherhood/sisterhood of suffering. If we suffered, we believe that others NEED to suffer as well. It’s why nurses are terrible to new nurses, why so many people are against forgiving student debt, and why so many parents refuse to acknowledge their children’s issues. It’s all “I lived through it and it sucked, so you need to too,” mentality. We didn’t build compassion though suffering, we just wish it on others, too.

He way over-valued our home. It was a site unseen offer based on homes in the area. It was in need of major repairs that would make it difficult to sell on the market. Our realtor ended up buying it from us and then doing a huge renovation on it. She sold it for about double what the guy offered, but had to sink substantial funds into it that I just didn’t have.

We sold our house last year and did work with one of those guys to at least get an idea of value and then went with a realtor and made about 30% more than the cash offer guy.

Yeah, the need for nurses is growing daily, fewer people are choosing the career and more are leaving because nursing earlier because of the stress and abuse. But another major reason for long waits is that a lot of the people in the ER are there utilizing it as a primary care provider because they don’t have insurance to be able to get day to day care or they don’t go to an urgent care office. So many people are in the ER for antibiotics, cuts, scrapes, minor burns and breaks that really don’t need to be seen in the ER, adding to the long waits for people who do need to be there.

ChatGPT, write me a manifesto

Only one way to see if that’s the reason…

I used to joke with my surgeons that I’m running out of quarters to put in the anesthesia machine. Pretty soon it’s not going to be a joke.

“Motive remains unknown.” Lol