Internship March 5-6th

This week I kept to same routine as the other weeks, but I got to do something a little different. It was still in the aspect of finding NHS and GP numbers but I had a few other tasks as well. Occasionally when finding NHS numbers some patients will have multiple NHS numbers. Instead of finding the NHS numbers I had a list of duplicate numbers. It doesn't seem like that big of a deal but if all the patient information doesn't match between the duplicates, the NHS rejects the number and won't give the money to the hospital to pay for whatever care or procedure the patient needed. So one of the days I was working I had to go through all of the duplicates and fix all the information for the patients, so making sure name, birthday, GP's, etc. all matched. It doesn't seem like that great of a time and seems like an extremely boring day but it was nice having a change in tasks for a day. The other day I was at work I did the same thing as usual. However, as I was leaving I was told how much they appreciate me working and helping them out. The haven't been ahead in a long time and on time with getting the numbers done for the year and they were extremely happy that I was helping with everything. Although it isn't the most exciting things to do all day, it is nice to know that I am helping them a lot and it is great that they appreciate small things.

The people around me always make for an interesting and fun work day. The amount of tea the people drink in the office is insane. It seems like every half hour someone else is making tea for everyone. It's funny listening to everyone talk in the office as well. At some point someone will ask a work related question, half the time I'm not sure the question actually gets answered but within at least 5 minutes everyone will be crowded around that one persons desk and everyone will just be hanging out and talking about whatever interesting or bothersome thing is going on in their lives at the moment, or saying something about their kids or someone else at home. Listening to everyone chat at one another never gets boring and it is always entertaining listening to reactions of others.