The thing I love about hospital administration as a field is that it's largely a process of using bureaucracy in the same way that one uses language. Like, the question is never what cpt code I should use, it's what cpt code if used will result in dozens of teams being on the same page. It's not "what form needs to be filled out" it's "what form, if filled out, will trigger some stranger I'll never meet to order the right kind of gauze six months from now" lmao it's bonkers. My job is to be eloquent with paperwork
For each surgery to go through there is easily 100+ people who have to work in concert and they all need to be able to glance at the chart and understand exactly what they need to do quickly. That is what paperwork is for which is so cool!
There's this massive, massive system running constantly and my job fundamentally is to initiate and guide the process of steering that system into helping change someone's life forever. it rules. it rules so much haha
anyways hope y'all now have a better understanding why I'm excited by paperwork and why I'm proud to be a bureaucrat. it's cool stuff!
