you spin me right round

So last year I remember all my med school friends being miserable around this time of year… and now I understand why.  This application is just… kind of mind boggling.  Thank goodness it’s nothing like the application to med school where you sent off the common app to your programs (thirty of them if you were me) and then they each in turn sent you back their own ‘secondary application’ which (a) asked you to write up to five new essays just for that school and (b) asked you to send them $100.

This time around it’s just this one common app.  But sorting through all the programs, selecting the right ones, clicking through all of the choice boxes for each of my (22) programs.  It just makes your brain spin.  Trying to decide with little to no information if I want to apply to program X.   Having to triple check everything you type in because you’ve been led to believe that a single typo will make you lose your spot at your favorite program.

The application formally opens tonight at midnight, but mine’s not going to be submitted.  I just can’t finish it tonight.

Looking forward for the interview season part of this adventure to begin.  Friends, get your couches ready.

Finally!

It had been a while since my neighbors had put out any interesting garbage. I think I jinxed it by promising to supply pictures. Also just past this, across Addison, were two sofas, the frame for a futon, and two full futon cushions! So, if you need to go furniture shopping today, come on down to 9th street!

You're charging me what now?

I haven't written in a while... in fact I missed the entire month of July.

I just wanted to say that I will have an M.D. in 9 months and I all but have an M.B.A. in Healthcare Management and I just had to call my health insurance company and the billing office at my doctor's to dispute a claim/payment/bill for the first time, and I have never been so confused! I just spent an hour on the phone with two people, a dozen pieces of paper in front of me, searching google in between. You bundled what CPT code what with what discount adjustment what?

This health system is broken.

But on the bright side, I was successful, and as Glen said I just earned myself $318 for an hour's work, the best wage I've ever gotten! (We'll ignore that it was really my money to begin with.)