The thing I hate most about clinic is that no matter how many times you call a patient to confirm you still have zero control over whether or not they really show up! My grade is dependent on whether or not my patient feels like coming, is healthy enough to come, runs into problems or just forgets! I don't like not being in control of my own grade!
My patient today ran into some car troubles. And I try to give my patients the benefit of the doubt and believe what they tell me but sometimes it is hard. They have not shown up before because they had car troubles (about 3 weeks ago) and Sierra had just talked to the mom about 2 hours before and she had mentioned that her son was getting a ride with a friend. So when I called her about 15 mins after her son was supposed to be at the clinic she told me he won't be coming because of the car problems. So who knows what it really was but I'll be kind and hope they can get their car fixed.
My brother ended up being my patient today. I was really unsure whether I would be able to finish him or not because he got there about 45 mins late. I didn't have to do x-rays so that was nice and gave me some extra time. I just told myself to probe like I've never probed before!
I was able to finish him and it was great! But I learned today that sometimes family can be the worst patients! He was kinda funny to watch but a little frustrating to work on! But I finished and got four quads of a 1B so I can't complain too much!
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