OK, this is not really on subject but, since I have finally completed my move into my new office (which is only 2 miles from my old one) I have to share this frustration. We learned last week that, in order to change our address with Medicare we had to download a form from the Internet, complete it and mail it back. Given the holiday, I did not even look at the form until yesterday....it is an 88 page monstrosity !!!!! JUST TO CHANGE MY ADDRESS!!! My office manager spent most of the day today on the phone with Medicare only to learn that it may take up to SIX WEEKS for my Medicare checks to catch up with me. How in the heck is a small office like mine with 60% Medicare supposed to survive 6 weeks with no money coming in?? The even more ridiculous thing is that all the junk mail produced by the pharmaceutical companies has already found me. I am so frustrated I wish I would have just closed things down and gone to computer school to learn to be an IT person...they charged me $95 an hour. Plus, I could have gotten all the good-looking men and be driving a Corvette by now (at least that is what it insuates in their TV ads.)
Leslie, who is no longer having fun in medicine.
