I couldn't pass up the opportunity to use that Loki gif. Sue me. The psychology of Loki is a post that will have to come later. But oh, I've got my theories. Brace yourselves for that one. Anyway, I haven't had many psychological musings running through my mind lately. So if any of you have been awaiting more of those, I apologize. And it might be due to the fact that I only work with two other people. Well, sort of. The department I'm in only consists of the three of us, but there are lots more people within the entire company itself. In the beginning, I didn't technically apply for this position. I originally applied for a different position within the company, but at my interview I was told that this position had just opened up and I decided to just go with it. And lo and behold, the next day (or day after next, I can't remember for sure...yay pregnancy brain!) I got a phone call saying I got the job. That was a Friday, and I started the following Monday. Now that I've been there for roughly a month, I'm really happy I decided to change my direction slightly. My two coworkers are great, and don't mind when I ask hundreds of questions. It has been interesting though, that one of them will ask me about things we discuss, wanting to know how things look from a psychologist's point of view. This happens on a fairly regular basis. I don't mind it, in fact I really enjoy it when people want to discuss things from that angle.
I do have a fairly stupid theory based on my own observations about the study monitors. Specifically, this company conducts clinical drug trials. And periodically, a monitor from the sponsor site will come to our site to make sure things are running according to protocol. A source of endless frustration for my coworkers, myself as well, although not to the same degree, is the fact that the monitors will often request to have all the patient charts for their study at once, even though there is no way for them to look at all of them simultaneously. When the monitors have the patient charts, they cannot be entered into the electronic database, and oftentimes sponsors want this data within a very tight 48 hour window. So I have what I like to call The Preschooler Theory. Monitors are in the mindset of preschoolers: Mine! They're all mine and you can't have them even if I'm not looking at them because I might want them! It's like when a preschool kid is coloring and another one tries to take the yellow crayon the first one isn't using and the first one won't let them because they're all his and he might need it soon. Totally stupid, but it amuses me and my coworkers.
And that's what's been going on with me lately. I'm hoping to get back into this blog more soon.
