wildcard451

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  1. Or, I got a basically new Sigma 14mm /2.8 for $405, when new they are/were $899. Love it.
  2. Most of it, you're right. But that still doesn't mean that we can keep every single patient to the minute. Shit happens. If the front office is still accepting patients when we are slammed and overbooked, then they'll hear it from me first.
  3. I'll do my best to break it down here, as it is fairly complicated. I assure you that your doc is not making you wait just because they feel like it. To think that is quite frankly silly. What you need to remember, as one professional coach told me during residency training - "You know, out of all the professions I deal with, doctors are the only ones that have to open a door 40 times a day and have no idea what is waiting for them on the other side". Often, when I was doing primary care, we had patients who want 5-6 problems addressed during each office visit, which is only scheduled for 15 minutes. That is time to handle 1-2 max. However, if we tell you to reschedule to cover the other problems, well then we are assholes that are ignoring you and just trying to make more money by making another visit. You must also remember that our entire job is dealing with the sick people of the world. I am currently working in Urgent care, no scheduled appointments at all. People still yell at me for running behind and making them wait - it doesn't matter that I am calling the ambulance and dealing with an acute chest pain, or it took me an hour to sew up the wound from a guy dropping a chainsaw on his thigh before I got to the little sinus infection. Bottom line - espescially in primary care. 1) There are not enough of us to take care of every single patient, so we are overbooked. 2) With sick people, come emergencies, and no matter how much you want to be seen on time, the guy seizing down the hall takes priority 3) We're not trying to screw you over, but rather make a trade off between keeping a schedule, and giving each patient the treatment and time they need. (just the other day I had a lady for sinus congestion - but noticed that she checked "heavy" alcohol use in our system. She broke down, confessing her alcohol abuse because she wanted help, and getting her set up and treated took and extra 20 minutes, and it was worth every second of it to me) - Also, don't get mad at your office if they have a no tolerance policy on late visits. If you show up late, and still demand to be seen, then that there wrecks the entire appointment book for the rest of the day, and we are constantly trying to fight our way back to being on time. //and this did not even get into the economics of the number pf pts you need ot see per hour to even make back your overhead based on avg insurance/medicare/medicaid re-imbursements.
  4. There are very clear instructions for modifying a Conceptus switch to a proprietary switch on conceptus' website. I just did it with the D90.
  5. ...just for a minute, I swear.
  6. When did this thread drift into your fantasies?
  7. Sounds like what I spent the last two years of college doing. Except they called it theory.
  8. If you have the new BBM, scan in my picture to see if it works.
  9. Fuck him til you get bored and leave him.
  10. Somewhere, Skinnyshrek is laughing his ass off. And somewhere, he can still fuck off.
  11. Fucking shameful game by Romo tonight.
  12. Romo is killing me tonight....
  13. It's not as complicated as it appears in text. See the attachment. V_t (V sub t) is terminal velocity in meters per second. m is mass in kilograms. g is acceleration due to gravity, approximately 9.8 meters per second per second. Rho (the greek letter that looks like an italicized lowercase p) is the air density (mass per unit of volume). A is the projected area of the object, in meters squared C_d (C sub d) is the drag coefficient of the object. I like the MS Paint version better.
  14. I have never had one. However, now that I have taken a job in urgent care, I will be getting both H1N1 and the regular flu vaccine this year. Sucks to break my streak, but I cannot catch something from patients, and with 40-60 people per day, my odds of exposure are nearing 100%.
  15. Bingo. Yes but my interpretation allows me to offer my services.
  16. you used it without donating money to pay for it. nothing is free. that is what in the fuck is going on.
  17. http://conceptusinc.com/connection.htm That should cover it. I just did mine with a Nikon MC-DC2 cable custom and it works great. Some real tiny wires in there though.