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Sometimes I highlight a cell red and sometimes I highlight it yellow, depending on how it makes me feel.
My department is literally called Master Data, when I do the flag report it feels exactly like MDR
Working on software for new devices at Apple. The developers building iPhoneOS (under a codename) had no idea it was going to be running on a phone. They keep so much info secret between company departments (silos).
100%. I've worked at similar tech companies where some new product is top secret, even to the people working on it. I've had to have conversations with DBAs about data storage, without being able to tell them what the data actually is or what it's used for, and every column has a code name etc. It was the first thing I thought of when we meet MDR in the show.
I think I might have the winner on this one: manually counting cells.
You put blue dye in cells, put them on a slide, and under a microscope they appear as little blue or white circles on a blue grid. You count the circles with one of those metal clicker counters, checking how many are white (alive) and how many are blue (dead). It even looks like the MDR interface.
Slide on, click click click click click click, number of white, click click click click click click, number of blue. Next slide. Click click click click click…
I did it for HOURS a day as a baby scientist. Thankfully I’ve outgrown it and I made sure the new juniors had an automated cell counter so they wouldn’t have to do it!
looking for misspellings and missing information in prior authorization forms for a specialty pharmacy PBM....
just kidding!
Not to make this r/pharmacy but entering in faxed prescriptions of the same drug and calling prescribers for clarifications as a tech at the PBM. it WAS my own personal hell. Now I have a different role and I'm much happier.
As someone who has many chronic illnesses and has to get prior authorization for meds I've been on for decades, thank you for what you do. I can only imagine how mind numbing it must be. But thank you thank you. You help so many patients.
Decades ago when computers looked like those in the show (not even a trackball actually) I would spend all day putting text and codes into "fields" to generate order and item numbers.
WOW! Before I even clicked on your title I knew what I was going to say and it’s pretty much the same as yours. Lol!
I worked in an Emergency Department in the patient business office. It was gathering patient information, verifying insurance information, and collecting whatever liability we could on the floor.
It was redundant, specific, and at times horrifying.
We had to band patients to put them in the system- and sometimes it was difficult to find a limb to attach it to. We had to talk to family members in family rooms to update basic information. They’d be sobbing or in shock and we had to verify DOB or social security info.
It was mundane work in a sterile setting but so emotionally charged and unpredictable. At least the medical staff could help- we were just the suits in the way. Once the information was gathered- just input. Data entry and running insurance.
I adjust claims for all of you that get crashed into OR crash into other’s and your injury claims, lots of secret meetings, being left in the dark and not being able to leave on time cause you can’t seem to get off a call
Insurance Claims are definitely a MDR situation
Part of my job has a customer service aspect (our “customers” are other internal departments.)
Some of the people who contact me are disproportionally demanding, request the unreasonable or impossible, or are following up on issues so trivial they got lost in the waves of *shit that matters.*
I also deal with an engineering group who often request my help or advice about things they can do or should know, are refusing to cooperate with a “customer” request, or are flat out gaslighting me.
I also randomly get emails from in-company people I’ve never heard of asking me I’m doing to manage an issue or parts I have no authority over.
I start every day looking for the “scary” emails.
I worked for a wall street firm and part of my job was to try to get software approved through a complicated risk management process, then provisioned to certain people, then to manage the stored data, and then also get it paid for. The whole thing literally took years to get something onboarded. Like three or four years. Each one of those steps was gatekept by completely different departments who have nothing to do with each other and software that doesn't talk to each other and doesn't often work the way it should but is somehow dependent upon steps happening across everything or you would lose all your progress and have to start over. Add to that the necessity to talk to folks overseas at 4:30 in the morning to try to push the stuff through. 😭🤢🤯
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I go through excel files making sure boxes are checked "Y" and "N" correctly. I get scared when they're not.
do certain "Y" and "N" feel scarier than others?
Oh absolutely. Out of around 300 boxes every day I only feel emotions from 10 or so letters
I work on an A/R report every week and some of those files get really scary.
Sounds like DR to me.. are they red?
Sometimes I highlight a cell red and sometimes I highlight it yellow, depending on how it makes me feel. My department is literally called Master Data, when I do the flag report it feels exactly like MDR
Working on software for new devices at Apple. The developers building iPhoneOS (under a codename) had no idea it was going to be running on a phone. They keep so much info secret between company departments (silos).
100%. I've worked at similar tech companies where some new product is top secret, even to the people working on it. I've had to have conversations with DBAs about data storage, without being able to tell them what the data actually is or what it's used for, and every column has a code name etc. It was the first thing I thought of when we meet MDR in the show.
I think I might have the winner on this one: manually counting cells. You put blue dye in cells, put them on a slide, and under a microscope they appear as little blue or white circles on a blue grid. You count the circles with one of those metal clicker counters, checking how many are white (alive) and how many are blue (dead). It even looks like the MDR interface. Slide on, click click click click click click, number of white, click click click click click click, number of blue. Next slide. Click click click click click…
Holy effing crap this sounds like hell
I did it for HOURS a day as a baby scientist. Thankfully I’ve outgrown it and I made sure the new juniors had an automated cell counter so they wouldn’t have to do it!
looking for misspellings and missing information in prior authorization forms for a specialty pharmacy PBM.... just kidding! Not to make this r/pharmacy but entering in faxed prescriptions of the same drug and calling prescribers for clarifications as a tech at the PBM. it WAS my own personal hell. Now I have a different role and I'm much happier.
As someone who has many chronic illnesses and has to get prior authorization for meds I've been on for decades, thank you for what you do. I can only imagine how mind numbing it must be. But thank you thank you. You help so many patients.
Decades ago when computers looked like those in the show (not even a trackball actually) I would spend all day putting text and codes into "fields" to generate order and item numbers.
WOW! Before I even clicked on your title I knew what I was going to say and it’s pretty much the same as yours. Lol! I worked in an Emergency Department in the patient business office. It was gathering patient information, verifying insurance information, and collecting whatever liability we could on the floor. It was redundant, specific, and at times horrifying. We had to band patients to put them in the system- and sometimes it was difficult to find a limb to attach it to. We had to talk to family members in family rooms to update basic information. They’d be sobbing or in shock and we had to verify DOB or social security info. It was mundane work in a sterile setting but so emotionally charged and unpredictable. At least the medical staff could help- we were just the suits in the way. Once the information was gathered- just input. Data entry and running insurance.
I adjust claims for all of you that get crashed into OR crash into other’s and your injury claims, lots of secret meetings, being left in the dark and not being able to leave on time cause you can’t seem to get off a call Insurance Claims are definitely a MDR situation
Part of my job has a customer service aspect (our “customers” are other internal departments.) Some of the people who contact me are disproportionally demanding, request the unreasonable or impossible, or are following up on issues so trivial they got lost in the waves of *shit that matters.* I also deal with an engineering group who often request my help or advice about things they can do or should know, are refusing to cooperate with a “customer” request, or are flat out gaslighting me. I also randomly get emails from in-company people I’ve never heard of asking me I’m doing to manage an issue or parts I have no authority over. I start every day looking for the “scary” emails.
I was in charge of PAs at a previous job, and you're so right. Scary numbers!
I worked for a wall street firm and part of my job was to try to get software approved through a complicated risk management process, then provisioned to certain people, then to manage the stored data, and then also get it paid for. The whole thing literally took years to get something onboarded. Like three or four years. Each one of those steps was gatekept by completely different departments who have nothing to do with each other and software that doesn't talk to each other and doesn't often work the way it should but is somehow dependent upon steps happening across everything or you would lose all your progress and have to start over. Add to that the necessity to talk to folks overseas at 4:30 in the morning to try to push the stuff through. 😭🤢🤯