03.21.07
How important are you?
Mobile (cell) phones, whatever did we do without them? How did we manage our lives without being contactable at all times of the day and night? There seem to be few places where we can’t be disturbed either by our own phones going off or other peoples. There have been occasions when I could understand that people have needed to keep their phones switched on during a meeting but even the most important person can turn the thing to silent, vibrate or whatever, we don’t all have to suffer the full extent of a happy clappy ring tone! Yesterday I was at a meeting to discuss the future of urgent services for children. The whole concept of what exactly is meant by this government produced word ‘urgent’ will be covered on this blog on another day in the not very distant future. But at the meeting were a number of people both from the PCT, from our acute trusts and also GPs. So who was so important they needed to let all of us know it? The on call Paediatrician? No, it was the director of planning (whatever job that involves) from the trust. And this happened not once but twice, and did he get up and actually take the call? No he didn’t he allowed it to go to voice mail and then listened to the message during the meeting. Quite amazing behaviour in my humble opinion! Maybe tomorrow, I’ll do a Thursday 13 on the things that annoy me!
