If you go looking, you’ll find a post or two about my shitty job in the medical field. For background, I’m a medical assistant in a major hospital corporation owned physician clinic.
Since lockdown, we have been without a phlebotomist because upper management decided our numbers didn’t warrant us having one, and the MAs can draw their own labs. This takes time away from other crucial tasks, like authorizations and phone calls. We (the other MA and I) have been trying to convince them of this, without success.
I asked for a desk job after getting a diagnosis of POTS (postural Orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) last year. POTS makes long periods of standing and moving around very difficult for me, and occasionally dangerous – I am at risk of passing out when I stand or am up too long. I was given a desk job, but was still ‘floated’ to multiple clinics in clinical positions, including physically demanding clinics like cardiology. My work hours were changed with a 10 minute notice – my start time was 8 AM and management would call me and tell me at 7:20 I need to be in a clinic for 7:30. I’d get to a clinic and be redirected as soon as I hit the door to a clinic across town because they were short handed.
Two weeks ago I was told – not asked, told – that I was being moved BACK into a clinical position in spite of my request to remain at a desk that I was assured by management would be honored. My mistake was not getting this in writing and I know it. And now I’m stuck. Short of passing out at work (which will curtail my life significantly), there’s nothing I can do. I hate corporate healthcare, dude.