Before I went to London, I worked with one of the people who would be giving a presentation in my absence (I manage the continuing medical education program). I told her I needed her presentation by 10/6 so that I could manage any formatting, etc.

I got it on 10/4 and she asked me to send it out electronically to the intended audience members once I had resolved the formatting issue. Which I did, that day. I kept a copy of the e-mail in my file.

Bitch decides she wants to do different slides *the day before the talk* and I'm in London -- which she knows. So, she gets all pissy and tells my boss (whom we all know is my best friend ...) that I never sent out the god-damned slides and now she doesn't have a copy that she can alter.

Never mind that the bitch in question was one of the e-mail recipients of the re-formatted presentation. Since she "couldn't find it," I must not have sent it.

So, I present my boss with the proof ... and then get told, "Well, you should have sent me a copy too. That way the doctor wouldn't have been put out of her way. You can't expect doctors to look for things." It is worth noting that my boss is *not* part of the intended audience for a medical grand rounds case conference on anxiety and depression ... although I'm damned well tempted to present myself as an object of discussion one of these times. :-/

I promised my boss that I would cc her on every e-mail I send out from now on. And I mean it. That includes two-word e-mails like "Thank you." She's going to be sorry she was ever born.

You'd think that, wouldn't you? But, sadly, there is such a culture at our medical center of people saying "Oh, I never got that ..." even when you have a printout right in front of you showing their return receipt, that it's almost laughable. Yet, it's a rare thing when anyone questions a physician's actions ... and doing so doesn't make you popular.

Just ask me. ::ahem::