GENERICS

GENERICS,

In my line of work I have discovered some relatively interesting information about the health care system.

* For starters physicians get paid more if they prescribe generics for their patients
* Second of all pharmacies get paid more if they give the patients generics
* Third of all, generics aren't always as cheap as patients claim: if it is the first generic out there for that specific line of drugs (for instance the first drug to go generic for allergies) the price of generic is likely to still be very expensive and remain expensive until several other types of that drug go generic
* Next, physicians are monitored and graded based on how many generics they prescribe patients. This means if a doctor prescribes a branded drug the physician doesn't get credit for it and therefore doesn't get paid for it. Meaning patients will often times go home with generic forms of certain drugs rather than the branded drug and will not get as great of results because of this.
* Also, a pharmacist might take a script that was written to do and break it down into "generics" which is often times not actually a generic but can be more costly because they broke down the medication into several types of "generics" meaning you end up paying more.

As much as a physician hates that you research drug options it is actually a really smart thing to do. It helps keep the patient more involved in their own health care and treatment.

WALLEYBALL

WALLEYBALL- if you haven't heard of walleyball I am pleased to inform you about this very fast paced game. Walleyball is volleyball played in a raquetball court with a net seperating the courty in half. This is a faced pace game because you are allowed to play the ball off of the walls and ceilings and trust me, you definately need to watch out for getting hit in the face. Some basic rules to this game:

1. On the serve the ball cannot touch the net
2. On the serve the ball cannot hit the back wall of your opponent's side of the court or it is considered out of bounds.
3. On the serve the ball cannot bounce off of more than 1 of your opponents side walls or it is considered out of bounds.
4. Once the ball is in play you can only hit it off the ceiling on your side of the net and cannot hit the ceiling and go over the net to your opponents side of the court or that is considered out of bounds.
5. All other basic volleyball rules apply.

Word of advice, pay attention to the ball, it can bounce off of a wall so fast it hits you square in the face.

If you are looking to play or try to play walleyball, many facilities that have raquetball courts also have walleyball nets they can set up for you as well as walleyball balls.

After just having graduated college May of 2008 I started to examine what it is I want to do with MY life. Just as a fun idea I tried to create a list of horrible jobs and a list of awesome jobs to have, this is what I have come up with so far:

Horrible:
* window washers
* any job that has to clean up feces of animals or outhouses
* insurance salesman
* taxi driver
* janitor
* mortition
* garbage man
* exterminator
* gutter cleaners


Awesome jobs:
* treasure hunter (providing you have the funds)
* nuclear physicist
* assassin/007/spy
* celebrity party planner
* surfing instructor
* scuba instructor