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This morning I went to a mandatory seminar on HIPAA, which is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Most of the stuff was about accountability. You can't tell anyone anything about any patient anywhere remotely public unless you absolutely can't avoid it. You're not even supposed to discuss anything with a patient in the presence of their family members without getting permission from the patient, and you can't leave anything with a patient's name on it anywhere somebody without a need to know could read it. Some of it makes sense, but I think some of it is a bit overly paranoid. That's Congress for you.

It feels a lot later than Wednesday.

I learned a couple of new things on Monday. One, it takes me 20 minutes to walk from Kenmore to Brighton Ave. Two, Japanese noodles should not be left sitting in a strainer while you stir-fry the rest of the veggies and such. (I had to soak the strainer to get the remnants of the noodles off.) It was a really good stir-fry, though. It had bok choy and baby corn and water chestnuts and two kinds of mushrooms in it, in addition to the noodles.

I am very carefully not thinking about the Iraq situation, because I refuse to be told by the media what I should think. What I do think makes me angry, so I'm not thinking about it at all.