Thursday, February 9

Chemo day. The next-to-last in-patient chemo day too.

Hospital time is maddening. Scheduled for a time means “around this time, but probably later, maybe earlier, but we don’t know.”

That’s true for “morning” rounds, procedures, chemo, everything.

I’m hard pressed to think of any industry where this lack of precision in scheduling would be acceptable.

What’s unique about medicine, especially in-patient medicine, that makes this okay? Is it because we are, quite literally, captive customers?