Tuesday, October 6, 2009

What a day

So my patients today were suppose to be mother and daughter. They speak spanish so it was difficult to communicate with them so I was relieve when my first patient showed up she seemed to be an easy 1B however she had burnished calculus and I had a ton of errors however this was a really good learning experience I think I am starting to know the feel of burnished calculus better. My afternoon appointment was suppose to be her mom I had confirmed just the night before that they would both be coming but when she hadn't shown up at ten minutes the start of her appointment I called to see if she was still planing on coming and her number was disconnected. So I scrambled to find another patient and I found someone that said they would be able to come in about 20 minutes. It was about 1:00pm so I said that would be great he has to pre-med but I told him to take it and then come and by the time we got through the initial paperwork and everything it would have been and hour. He didn't actually show up til about 2:00 so I hurried to get x-rays and it was tough. He had a tiny mouth and he needed vertical bwx I had to take both molar shots over because it was difficult to get back far enough. While I was in the middle of that my originally schedule patient showed up her daughter had told her that her appointment was at 2:30 not 12:30. I finished the x-rays and rescheduled her for another day. Then I start into the appointment and my patient tells me he is schedule with another student sometime in novemeber. At this point I'm so frustrated with the day that I can't quite figure out how becuause no one was his prefered provider and he was on the resource list. But, I find who it is he is going to see and I tell him I will see him since he is already here and has already taken the pre-med. I was able to finish two quads with no errors eventhough I only had like 30 minutes to scale. I rescheduled him and after his appointment I called the other students she understood that it was not my fault and everything was fine. Man what a day!

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