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To: Sully- who wrote (51838)	5/21/2002 11:01:26 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 65232

I had a big advantage that sometimes helped me play in the sand box. My medical director (my boss, my supe, whatever) was Chief of Resp. Med, sometimes Chief of Medicine, and sometimes acting Chief of Staff, the "maybe tied for first with the Director" most powerful position in the hospital. Helped a great deal. (When I left, the Chief of Med was a guy named Murad...a few years later, he co-received the no belly prize for the discoveries leading to the development of Bob and Libby Doles' favoritest drug. So how does the Rat buy a ventilator? 2 daze b4 the end of the quarter, the boss comes up and sez "Quick, we have to spend 50 K in two days; do you want anything?" Spend it or lose it. So how does the Rat fire an employee who calls in sick 30 days a year for 8 years? Why do you think it took me 8 years? What a place. Best job I ever had. Rat PS..I'm still trying to figure this one out...I was GS11; most of my staff was GS-7. We had to staff 24/7/365. Personnel staffed 8/5/12 mo. So why did Personnel have more people GS-11 and above than I had therapists? Like I said, the hospital was there to justify the existence of the bureaucracy. TK