A tour of my new clinic

I thought I would take this opportunity to show all of you in Dallas my new digs.

After 6 weeks, my office is still organized - without boxes, sleeping bags, or stacks of unfiled papers.


And I even have pictures up on the walls



I couldn't take a picture of the waiting room, because there were patients in there - but we actually have a waiting room with a door.

Here is the front hall into clinic

3 exam rooms and one "treatment" room - used for accessing ports, etc. At the end of the hall is one of our 2 private infusion rooms - here is a close-up

We also have a "sub-waiting" area with a fish tank, and a nurses station with a glass wall that looks out over the subwaiting area, with a view of sub-waiting and both infusion rooms.



In the nurses station - there are 3 computers for 3 nurses (not 2 computers for 5 nurses). My office is about 50 feet from the nurses station, so I just bring my work in here and stay out of the nurses' ways.

We have a lab about 50 feet in the opposite direction, and we get CBC's back in about 15 minutes on a slow day. The pharmacy is across the hall from the lab, and all of our chemotherapy is made there - the pharmacy is actually a real room, not a converted coat closet.

I tried to get some pictures of the nurses and other docs, but they were all shy, so you'll just have to wait until COG to meet them - they are all anxious to taste real mexican food (perhaps the single "Dallas" thing I miss the most - other than all of you that I worked with at CCBD.)

I am meeting with the local Make-a-Wish folks today to try to get involved with the organization here - it is not nearly as well organized here as in Dallas, but I have hopes.

Keep up the posting on the cowbell blog, so that I can stay up-to-date.

I miss all of you.

Doug