Conflict Corner: Hurry, Hurry, Hurry…

By Barbara A. Bailey, PhD

Has the pace of life picked up lately for you?

For many, school is moving full steam ahead. That schedule alone can bring a faster tempo of life in your home, your work, and all the other activities that we find ourselves constantly juggling.

Maybe, you have decided to look for a new job, continue to look for a job, or decided to open your own place. I know around my community that new businesses have opened, and I haven’t had the time yet to visit them for a taste of new food or hear some live music or just browse for support and welcome.

It just seems to me that the demands on time and the pace have picked up since a few weeks ago when I found myself in more control of my schedule. And I don’t know about you, but when this shift happens for me, I must take some breaths, some breaks, and some reality checks.

Conflict lurks when stress occurs. It has its own agenda and can erupt when time is short (real or perceived) and too much needs our attention (all at once). We get in the car and find ourselves distracted, gripping the steering wheel, and not paying attention and before we know it, we’ve run a stop sign, a red light, or a school zone. Hopefully, no one has been hurt by our actions, but it can happen “out of nowhere.”

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CineMedics

Continued from page 15 ous shifts in rules by multiple production heads, film unions, and federal agencies and keep production going for even well-known company events such as CNN’s Life Itself conference, Netflix’s Don’t Look Up production, and Hulu’s Big Time Adolescence production.

The company has grown rapidly since 2020. CineMedics is now part of Drake Bianchi’s medical services company, Drakos Clinical Laboratories. Drakos has multiple national and international testing sites, including one in Georgia in Peachtree Corners.

With these mobile facilities, Drakos is able to deliver results for film productions, large events, senior living communities, in-office executive medicine, or at-home testing in an hour or less. This results in reduced testing expenses and more accessible services for the public. In the film industry, this means fewer production delays and crew members no longer have to leave the set to obtain testing, thanks to the mobile lab setup.

Molly Dunegan, a leading scientist at Drakos’s Atlanta lab, shared, “We fit into your mold. You don’t need to fit into ours. We can build a lab almost anywhere and bring our mobile lab to you.”

Drakos provides mobile laboratory testing services for Covid, Flu, RSV, STI, and routine blood work, incorporating the latest and highest quality technology.

“Most labs make you choose between the kind of care you want,” Dunegan says. “You can either get your test results quickly, or you can have testing done in-home, not both. Through our facilities, Drakos Clinical Laboratories offers the highest quality testing technologies available with on-site service and the fastest results in the Atlanta area.”

The sky is the limit as far as expansion for this company. In fact, the CineMedics division was recently contracted to provide its services on the new Netflix film “Our Man from Jersey,” which was filmed in multiple locations, including Europe, and featured some of Hollywood’s top actors – Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry, and J.K. Simmons.

Drakos employs fifty staff members across the US and UK, including four at the Atlanta testing site, and they’re adding more as they grow, to keep the world working!

More information at www.cinemedics.us.