Today I am working on my first patient that I don't know. In all honesty I am nervous but at the same time I feel somewhat confident because my last patient went well. It was a wreck trying to get someone to come though. I had someone all lined up and they called yesterday and told me they couldnt make it. I was running around and calling people like a chicken with its head chopped off last night trying to get someone to come in and I finally got a patient confirmed at 9pm last night. I can tell this scheduling a patient thing is going to be the stress of my life and I'm EXCITED for it. Yea.
Oh man. That was interesting. I really liked my patient. He was super nice and very understanding of me. I was getting a little discouraged with scale checks and such. Sometimes it gets annoying to hear over and over there's something I missed, or I did the computer stuff wrong or something else. blah blah blah. I am sure it will all go away with experience. I wasn't expecting him to be willing to come back but he's comin back next wednesday so thats good! He was a 1B with some missing teeth and super old calculus. I'd have to say the thing, ok one of the things I find most irritating is that I cannot feel the calculus that the instructor does so how in the flippin heck am I supposed to know what to scale? Oh gosh. Whatever.
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I am glad that you found a patient! I totally hear you on that calculus bit... I thought mine was calculus today but no it was ortho cement.... anyway hopefully we will survive... between clinic and finding patients and homework and such....ok I am done ranting!
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