Over the next three weeks, I expect to be spending 6 or 7 days in DC, attending the annual Drug Information Association conference (prescription and over the counter. Not even discussing medical marijuana from what I saw), meeting with AMA (American Medical Association), PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America), Public Citizen, FDA (Food and Drug Administration), and possibly Tufts’s CFDD (Center for Drug Development) and a harvard lecturer\/former editor of the new england journal of medicine, sitting in on a congressional testimony by my supervisor’s supervisor, and briefly (very briefly) presenting my observations of it at a meeting of the top dogs in GAO. Also, I have found and made reservations at a bed & breakfast in dupont circle with wireless. All but about $10\/night of it is covered by my lodging allowance. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile my former stats partner and fellow intern, in the same office, on the same thematically related team, will be matching up the addresses of registered sex offenders and nursing homes, while working on a listing of medically oriented first responder training programs with someone in dallas. <\/p>\n
I’ll have to remember that neither of us are getting what one might call a representative experience, though she’s probably closer.<\/p>\n
Even so, I did have to do an hour of the most onerous, tedious task that GAO analysts do. Imagine reading a 30 page paper aloud, noting every capitalized letter, and every punctuation mark, to make sure that when someone transitioned from Word to PDF, reformatted, and edited for readability, they didn’t fuck anything up. We made it through about 7 pages. And Regardless, my impending travel will almost certainly delay my much thought about, if not much planned bay area travel. Unless there is a conveniently timed e-saver. And even then, ugh. <\/p>\n I did decide to move up my departure from GAO date by a week. I’m serious about going to Europe. Now I just have to decide where….<\/p>\n “Gain an hour, lose an hour. This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the next three weeks, I expect to be spending 6 or 7 days in DC, attending the annual Drug Information Association conference (prescription and over the counter. Not even discussing medical marijuana from what I saw), meeting with AMA (American Medical Association), PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America), Public Citizen, FDA (Food and … Continue reading “Plans for the next three weeks & recent fun at work”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}