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In spite of the drama implied by the subject line, it's pretty quiet here at the moment. (Quiet = the chattering of birds, the hum of the fridge, the tap of my fingers against the keyboard, the reverb of kid + car noise from the school down the block...). I've got work to get to, plus dinner with friends across town, but it being Monday, there was first the Talking Library broadcast...
...and then a presentation over at Vanderbilt on various medical center initiatives. For me, the most interesting stats were the current cost of providing care to uninsured patients (.5 billion dollars/year, for a thousand-bed system) and the reduction in cases of VAP (ventilator-associated pneumonia), especially compared to national averages.
Down the street from the hospital, Retropolitan is closing/moving because its building is about to be demolished. I'm glad I got to meander around the current incarnation with Mary and her sister when they were here in March, admiring felt vines and other whimsies.
Poetry-wise, I got two more submissions out the (electronic) door and posted on May Sarton's "All Souls" poems over at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
poetree.
...and then a presentation over at Vanderbilt on various medical center initiatives. For me, the most interesting stats were the current cost of providing care to uninsured patients (.5 billion dollars/year, for a thousand-bed system) and the reduction in cases of VAP (ventilator-associated pneumonia), especially compared to national averages.
Down the street from the hospital, Retropolitan is closing/moving because its building is about to be demolished. I'm glad I got to meander around the current incarnation with Mary and her sister when they were here in March, admiring felt vines and other whimsies.
Poetry-wise, I got two more submissions out the (electronic) door and posted on May Sarton's "All Souls" poems over at
poetree.
