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Date Posted: 18:40:16 07/20/01 Fri
Author: Kathy
Subject: Ooh, I am printing this mofo
In reply to: SM78 's message, "Job Interviewing Tips" on 20:34:54 07/19/01 Thu

This is the first time today that I have genuinely laughed. Can I vent? Gimme a syrah...no, the bottle. Thanks. And a Xanax. The blue one.

I am not usually the selling type. I am the nasty person who bullies, wheedles, stonewalls, and deals with rotten schools, evil kid-napping "treatment centers" (the latest of which, in NM, shot one of our 7-yr-olds full of Haldol and drove him away in an ambulance without letting his mother see him), dumbass CPS workers, and dumberass parents who are playing musical doctors for controlled substances. That is my life.

Today I returned a call from a muckymuck at TTU. She chatted sweetly, then said abruptly, "What I want to know is what to tell a parent who has spent two hours on the phone with me trying to find help for a student who's struggling and we think there's a disability. Should I recommend your practice?" She gave some percentages of their problem students and we talked about patterns of behavior and difficulties, blah blah.

See, part of the problem with our stupid, dumbed down public schools is that a bright kid can sail through with a language disability and find that when he or she gets to college they can't keep up. I am not talking about lazy kids here. I am talking about kids who have never had to really study or read or write, and when they get to college they spend an inordinate amount of time on assignments that even less-motivated peers sail through. Blah, blah...you get the picture.

After I was finished explaining our really terrific practice, our medical approach (physical examination, extensive background information, and careful monitoring of med and modification trials), our care in diagnoses and our vigilance in follow-up, SHE HERSELF began relating a history of problems that definitely sounded like undiagnosed ADHD Inattentive. I asked her if she drank coffee. She gushed, "How did you know?" and said she'd never been a coffee drinker until recently (she's over 40) and how it had made noticeable improvements but, being only a mild psychostimulant, not enough to help the distractibility and memory problems.

Anyway, she asked for a bunch of material from our office (since The Doc is not a grandstander he doesn't believe in advertising and I had very little except a short fact sheet) and asked for an appointment! I was amazed. We are probably the only practice in a thousand or so miles that even sees adults and I knew that if I could get John and The Doc behind this we could have a LUCRATIVE partnership with the university. And help people who need it. And discern those who don't...if we don't see (academic, occupational, and behavioral) progress in about three months, we gently (at first) discuss uhhh...letting them go elsewhere.

Well, John was exited. I felt like a real professional sales-type person.

The Doc shrugged and bitched about the unreliability of college students. FUCK!!! What about the loser parents who no-show appointments and "will pay us as soon as the tax return comes in?" What about the loser parents who get pills from us AND from their kid's PCP until I,/i> catch them!?! How is that reliable?? All things being equal, a random sample of our college students are actually as reliable as a randoms sample of our parents. We look at their grades. We get parent reports (with signed consent from our adult patients). They come in for their appointments.

Why am I doing this for $8 per and no benefits? Where can I go to use those interviewing tips and get a better job?? I like the dynamic feeling of catching evildoers and helping our kids when they need it, but I am tired of being shot down or ignored when I do great things. HELP!!

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  • Not Job Interviewing Tips -- Leo Pötsch, 12:16:43 07/21/01 Sat
  • Husband Guy did that once... -- Kathy, 07:39:38 07/22/01 Sun
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