When you feel a bit down, aggravated with administration or 3rd party payors or the system in general...this might be of help:
A friend of ours was walking down a deserted beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see a small girl in the distance. As he grew nearer, he notice that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again she kept tossing things out into the ocean.
As our friend approached even closer, he noticed that the girl was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach and, one at a time, she was throwing them back into the water. Our friend was puzzled. He approached the girl and said, "Good evening, young lady. I was wondering what you are doing."
"I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."
"I understand," my friend replied, "but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many. And don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast? Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"
The girl smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and as she threw it back into the sea, she replied, "Made a difference to that one!