“She waited 400 years for a hot chocolate!” A hospital employee uttered this with a very incredulous tone when I stepped forward to pick up my hot chocolate from the Lakota counter. I just smiled under my mask.
My first thought, what the heck is wrong with hot chocolate? I love it! Anytime I am at University Hospital and it isn’t ridiculously hot out, I treat myself to some from Lakota.
This employee’s simple utterance got me thinking about so much more.
I am a simple person. If you know me, you know I don’t wear makeup, barely wear jewelry, don’t do my nails, use the old fashion radio controls on my car radio instead of the buttons on my steering wheel, and eat my salads without dressing. I don’t drink mocha latte French vanilla low foam pumpkin spice with oatmeal. Yes, I made that drink up and I am sure to coffee/latte connoisseurs it is laughable, but I swear the drink names the baristas were shouting out were at least that long.
I realized there is great contrast to how I am personally versus professionally. No doubt most patients (and even providers) view PGx, genetics, and personalized medicine as something pretty complex, fancy and perhaps intimidating. While I am a simple person at heart, when it comes to taking care of patients, I use the “fancy” stuff to make the patient’s life simpler with less medication that is ideally more effective.
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