Today there's an all-day meeting with the EMR guys to make our software do more stuff that data people need it to do.
(Trip has been an excellent participant, because the conference room has a good sun spot.)
We are on a lunch break so I just had to come here and squeal and say people are listening to me. People who outrank me by several levels are listening to me. Everyone is listening to me. It's like somehow I inherited "health data expert" from my dad, then exceeded it (according to him I surpassed him even before he died but I don't buy it) and people I work with actually realize that.
And no one else has my level of expertise. And it's me. I'm the expert. I'm the second most important person in the room.
I'm kind of happy-vibrating. It's not even intimidating or overwhelming because to me it doesn't feel like I'm being asked much; it's just easy questions, easy strategizing, but to everyone else health data is like speaking ancient Sumerian. It's a rare experience that I actually feel confident in knowing things 100% when there are other people who don't know them. But to me it's things that seem like common sense, and I told this to my mom and she was like "that's because you actually do know your subfield really well. It seems easy and like common sense because you're actually an expert."
I am not used to this.
(Trip has been an excellent participant, because the conference room has a good sun spot.)
We are on a lunch break so I just had to come here and squeal and say people are listening to me. People who outrank me by several levels are listening to me. Everyone is listening to me. It's like somehow I inherited "health data expert" from my dad, then exceeded it (according to him I surpassed him even before he died but I don't buy it) and people I work with actually realize that.
And no one else has my level of expertise. And it's me. I'm the expert. I'm the second most important person in the room.
I'm kind of happy-vibrating. It's not even intimidating or overwhelming because to me it doesn't feel like I'm being asked much; it's just easy questions, easy strategizing, but to everyone else health data is like speaking ancient Sumerian. It's a rare experience that I actually feel confident in knowing things 100% when there are other people who don't know them. But to me it's things that seem like common sense, and I told this to my mom and she was like "that's because you actually do know your subfield really well. It seems easy and like common sense because you're actually an expert."
I am not used to this.
