Today I avoided the nasty humidity + 95 degree weather tucked away in Bayer HQ working on a mysterious project entitled "Compliance". As it turned out, Compliance involved hundreds of pages of reading regarding Bayer's ethical and legal standards. I can now definitively tell you the circumstances in which you may or may not feed a group of medical professionals (which, seriously though, is an ethical issue that has bothered me since I put in the hours at that medical records office last summer).
So, yeah, it was a slow day. But that only made the highlight of the afternoon that much better: meeting Phil Blake, the Bayer U.S. corporate executive (aka President Boss Guy). I was immediately put at ease; he was down-to-earth and soft-spoken, with quite a lovely English accent to boot. In our brief meeting he related his misadventures going for runs in the area, his mental processes as he oversees the many divisions within Bayer, and his vision for the hemophilia community. My fellow interns and I surprised him with some recent breakthroughs in hemophilia research and he requested we forward him an article or two. I left feeling honored to have been able to spend time with such a successful yet humble man.
With the windows rolled down and NPR turned up, we whipped back to our hotel. After a week of intensive communication, conflict management and presentation skills training I'm looking forward to a weekend in The City That Never Sleeps.
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