07/18/2014
One could not stop the flood of feelings as I said farewell to many patients who became friends over the years. I truly cared about my family of patients.
I wondered, as I said goodbye, whether I had to do this. Why not practice for one or two days per month (and remain involved with my beloved patients)?
The office phone rang after I took my skeleton down for the last time. It was a case manager (works in the evil empire). She asserted that I couldn't write a disability note for a patient who'd been injured at work but was no longer being treated under comp. Of course she was wrong...but she was NASTY.
I'm thinking, 'Oh yeah, trying to get money for service I rendered in good faith...never charging patients when they deserved care (the laws were written to provide protection to workers and employers, equally. But give a corporate entity half and it will immediately want another half of your half). And running up against people like that case manager.
Oh yeah! There are some pretty good reasons to be happy about retirement after all!