Hospitals, like politicians and armies, are always preparing to fight the last war. My hospital is not an exception to this rule. So, today, I was Googling around, trying to find some verbiage to snag for an ebola after action report form that I was designing. For the last war. The time to prepare for ebola was 12 months ago. We should be preparing for something else now.
I looked at the Virginia Health Department site – makes sense. We are in Virginia. They are sort of in charge of some of our policies, procedures, requirements etc. I found the fine Commonwealth of Virginia wants to help you if you think you have ebola and don’t have a doctor. You should “Check a hospital’s yellow page advertisement…” Has anyone seen yellow pages lately? If you do find a yellow pages – I wonder how many hospitals are actively advertising for ebola patients.
What would I be worried about if I were a hospital – the total meltdown the internet, maybe. Or failure of cell phone service. I wouldn’t be worried about an outbreak of a killer virus that attacks humans. But, that is just me – and I worry about what I am told to worry about.
My printer – which has been dying since before Carlton died – just died. Well, truthfully, I just took it off life support. I got over 10 years hard service out of it. And, it was “carlton proof”. He could use it as a stand alone copy machine. RIP HP1312. It’s replacement has to fit into it’s space. Size matters.
Had a lovely dinner. The Four C’s. Cheese and Cherries from the farm market. Chocolate from Trader Joe. Coffee from Starbucks.