HunterG..
You may be sorry you asked.. i am in a reflective mood this morning.
In the first place, i didn't offer a job... i just said that i had run into this circumstance and it looked like a business opportunity for someone to me.
It still does.
beachdrivegirl's post #8 brought up the personal employment issue..
"Oh i get it. you are offering a job to someone here on the blog. How much are you paying?"
i thought my reply to her in post #9 was pretty clear .. i told her i wasn't offering a job and when and if i did i would post the offer here...
I concluded that post with
"in the meantime, it was just a small business idea i floated... one you tell me is too expensive and cumbersome to do... probably not a gig for you."
i think it's reasonable to assume that if the business concept is totaly misunderstood.. it's probably not a good fit.
the reason i concluded that the concept was not understood is beachdrivegirl's post in response to my OP.. her post #2...
"There are softwares out their that complete this but it is very costly for businesses to do this so most dont have the funds available to invest in them."
i made the comment that this wouldn't be her gig because it is obvious to me that if she is recommending expensive software and speaking from the perspective of business to business transactions that she doesn't understand the need from a patient's perspective... and that is the unmet need that i presented.
I intended no insult. I am sure that she is very competent at her job...
but her job does not address the need that has surfaced in response to computerization of medical records for patients with established pertinent medical histories.
Nor will it close the gap for those whose expectation is that their personal physician will have ready access to their complete medical histories.... changes in test values are often the first indication of developing medical issues...
but that is a need that will eventually be addressed business to business... because if not rectified it will result in some horrendous lawsuits when people die because their physicians didn't access pertinent information that was in their medical file because it wasn't in the computer.
Rectification via lawsuits will take decades and it is unlikely the results will be pertinent to a huge group of patients by the time they are resolved and the situation remedied. Our very lives depend upon finding a solution to a problem we are not legally entitled to solve... Put that way it seems just a little dismal.
HunterG.. people don't die of Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but the actuarial tables indicate that their life expectancy is shortened due to these illnesses... the rates those who are so diagnosed pay for life insurance reflect that reality... these illnesses along with most chronic illnesses... often mask symptoms that would indicate life threatening illness... catching objective changes in test results is critical for people with chronic illness.
This really is a life or death issue for some of us.. thus the business opportunity...
As for why i didn't choose to respond publicly... when beachdrivegirl chose to make this personal...
Let's assume it was an honest misunderstanding...
that she had been right and i was trolling for someone to do this job for me...
would you publicly respond to someone who issued a public demand to know what the job you hadn't yet offered paid?
The same message sent privately wouldn't have compelled me to pursue an applicant... so why would i respond to it publicly?
It is far more likely that responding would only increase the adversarial atmosphere in the thread... with more posters chiming in to defend their friends from perceived insults.
If you had posted this idea.. is that how you would want the thread to end?
Because that is how it has come down... with the focus on individuals and not ideas...
I am well aware that some will blame me for that.. after all, i didn't need to tell beachdrivegirl that it probably wasn't her gig.
and you would be right. Even meaning nothing personal by the comment.. i could have avoided this particular challenge by saying nothing...
but i have to say that i am exceedingly weary of being the person responsible for not saying anything that could in any way be construed as a personal insult to some posters... when the very act of posting anything at all... a personal experience germane to the thread or a perceived business opportunity... is an invitation to posts making assumptions about what i said at best and outright insults at worst and then response to those assumptions creating adversarial environments that leave the question of what was actually said behind.
I have very nearly left this forum more than once because it just plain gets old.
If everything is personal.. if it is not possible to post an idea or an opposing opinion without getting a storm of personal reactions from a small group of posters.. what use is conversation?
I am weary, but i persist because i feel that without conversation our society becomes one big reaction to sales pitches.. and i am not yet ready to contribute to that with my silence.
I am going to continue to believe that it is possible to have an exchange of ideas and opinions and that doing so will encourage others to do the same.
i believe the survival of our democracy depends upon it... and i don't want to die without optimism for my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren... all more than a gleam in their parent's eye.
told you that you might be sorry you asked ;-)
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