Fix That Door Hinge

I grew up in UCONN country but married a Gonzaga alum whose Uncle is a Jesuit and teaches political science at Gonzaga, so we named our lab Zaggy and every March root for the Zags, and sometimes they play UCLA and hit a game winner.  Like they did last night.  It's nice to get a win after a long week -- two days earlier I hammered a nail into my finger trying to reattach a shutter. "Are you a dummy?" my bride said at the urgent care. Yes, I would say that's fairly accurate. The shutter repair was incidentally #9 on my bride's list of 13 chores she nicely laid out for me this week.  The only one I was able to actually complete involved removing a filter I was supposed to remove in 2016. My stat line was like Gonzaga’s free throw shooting. So it’s fair to say I’m not bringing a whole lot of value to the table, not with household care anyway. I share this to make the point that it’s one thing to delegate a to-do list, quite another to see it knocked out. In healthcare, same thing I suppose. Every year, there are 20 things health insurers tell us they intend to do or ask physicians to do but actually getting them to do it can be painful, maybe not nail in finger painful, but still.   I talk about all this amidst a 40-minute monologue you can access here about healthcare payer priorities (enter this code to listen, X1@73cKU)….speaking of priorities, my bride asked me this morning how that wobbly door hinge is doing that I said I'd fix in December. "It’s not rocket science.”

Probably true, I said, "But in my defense, I’ve learned that fixing that hinge may, in fact, actually be rocket science."