On Oct 7, 12:09 pm, "Ken Finney" wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message

ps.com...

For those of you who exist in the clarified, rarified world of upper-
echelon corporate life, or hang out with pilots all day, it's hard to
remember the wide range of human behaviors that exist. I, too, once
existed there, and clearly remember walking the halls of the Fortune
500 company, finding it easy to believe that the whole world was
populated by intelligent, hard-driving "doers".

When you run a hotel, however, you see the entire panoply of the human
experience, often in the same day. Over time you realize that the
world is split unevenly between "doers" and "takers", and it's
sometimes hard to tell which side is winning. After a day like
yesterday it's hard to even believe that we've lumped so many
different creatures under the one title "homo sapiens".

Hmmm... Come to my world for a day... Sorry to point this out, but
the takers are winning...
The, don't work, won't work, sashay in hours late for the appointment
with a 'you owe me' attitude...
The whiners, whackos, and just plain crazy are increasing in numbers
as the decades go by..
My suspicion is thet we doers have created this...
We have made the world so safe there is no penalty for being lazy or
crazy...
A hundred years ago if you refused to work, you starved... And the
town merely shrgged and said, 'that'll learn ya, durn ya'...
Those who pay little or nothing (per their insurance) out of their
pocket at the time of service are increasingly hostile and
demanding...
The medicaid insured who are required by state law to pay just two
dollars for an office call have every excuse in the book why they
can't do that...
The clueless, who owe us thousands of dollars that they have never
made a single dollar in payment upon,
scream and swear and spit literally at my receptionist when she
informs them they have to pay before service from now on...

I have been actively practicing medicine for over 30 years, and we
have been in this office for 26 years, and until this past week
I have never turned a patient away for any reason - and especially
over money - but my accountant tells me if I do not start getting paid
I might as well close the doors....

Then there are the mentally challenged who can't seem to grasp that if
they eat everything in sight and weigh over 300 pounds,
why I can't just give them a pill that will make them look like a
magazine cover model...
The diabetics who can't grasp the fact that if they skip their insulin
they will wind up in the EMR unconcious - and keep doing it...
And the COPD with heart failure who can barely walk across the room
who tell me they can't
quit smoking because they will gain weight if they do! honest injun
story


denny