my afternoon email
TO: [management]RE: pyxis information
By now you must be aware that on Sunday ALL the power went out for fifteen seconds. Then emergency power came back on. It was part of some kind of fire issue, I think. The pharmacy is downright peaceful in the total dark, after all the fans stop spinning.
The outage destroyed some kind of main switch on a communication hub someplace which killed our interface between worx and pyxis, and kept all our computers and printers offline for about an hour. Following this, the pyxis procar resumed its normal communication and bled off the messages that had built up.
During this time, Terry (sp?) from pyxis worldwide decided to go in and erase over 16,000 messages (really) that had been built up on 4E over the last months, that might have been inhibiting traffic on the system. Whether this was necessary is not my place to judge, but in any case, my understanding is that the (now) missing messages are now at worldwide, and worldwide will eventually have to do the brain transplant* for us to get the messages where they're supposed to be. Interestingly, about a month ago I removed a duffel bag full of narcs from 4E as part of a "let's try not to let any more of the drugs in that machine go to waste than absolutely necessary" project for Barb, and I think our helpful narc department will be wanting those messages at some point. Also, medstation UPACU isn't communicating, but everything else is fine.
The guy in front of you in traffic is a jerk. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. You win some, you lose some. The minute you open that emailed movie "Girl and Horse," the elderly temp secretary filling in for yours will come into your office to ask you a question. The "Peanuts" comic strip and cartoons were grossly overrated. Communication switches fry. That's just the way things are, and we can't change them. A problem that surfaced that we CAN do something about is this: The pyxis console isn't plugged into the hospital's emergency power supply, which creates problems. It greatly behoves us to contemplate making this happen it so that when the power goes dead, the console does not.
*Part of any successful consultant's job is making it sound more difficult than it really is. Calling a rain cloud "nimbostratus", for example, is a meteorologist's way of intimidating the citizens of the cow states into thinking he's indispensable. When the pyxis company calls this incredibly simple task a "brain transplant", what you're seeing is the quintessential example of this phenomenon.
Thanks and have a great week,
Dale
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