Idaho, PAML and other chit chat

Well I'm almost there, having completed a week at my new job as an intern at the Pathology Associated Medical Laboratories(PAML) that is. The first three days have been learning the ropes. Getting to know the current billing system and the quality assurance plan to improve it and the physician connectivity- looking how interfaces (no matter how complex) are created to support doctors getting the results they need. Today should be spent actually looking at and testing the billing system and tomoorow is LIS (lab information systems) for the afternoon. There are a few interesting points about the american healthcare system I need to make note of, but that will be in my next blog.

As for other things, well on Monday night the president took me and the two Tonys(visitors from Newcastle in England) to a floating restaurant in Idaho. The food was brilliant and the scenery beatiful. We also stopped off at the Hotel Coeur d'Alene (http://www.cdaresort.com/) and walked around the boats by the lakeside. It was a good evening.

Over the past few days I seem to have built a rapport with those that work in Starbucks, which is interesting. The people here tend to be alot more friendly, and yes it may be fake but it certainly doesn't come accross that way. Certainly not how you might imagine. Spokane really is a great city, with its city life blended if with some of the great scenery.

At the weekend I am going downtown for some light shopping of clothes and groceries as well as to see hoop fest, which just happens to be one of the biggest basketball events in the country. There will be more to come on these.

This has been a quick one. My next entry should be soon.