What’s In A Name?
Posted by Ling on February 3, 2007
I won’t go to the waiting room and call my patient through.
I did it in my first week of work and discovered that :-
1. My timid voice didn’t project well and I had to repeat names countless times before anyone responded
2. When the patient followed me and walked into the surgery, they thought that I was the nurse and that my nurse was the dentist! I either have a youthful face or a “dental nurse” look about me…
As a result, I insist that my nurse calls my patients through while I wait at my surgery door.
All my other dentist colleagues have no problem calling patients through…but maybe they’ll change their mind after finding this out :-
One day, the receptionist and some nurses decided to play a trick on one of my colleagues, Dr M.
Dr M is a dentist, who is currently in his final year of medicine (he wants to be an oral maxillofacial surgeon so they have to do two professional university degrees – dentistry AND medicine).
One Monday night, the receptionist and nurses made up an imaginary patient and filled out a medical history form for this imaginary patient. Dr M went to the waiting room to get this patient.
He called out this patient’s name, but no-one responded, and so he called out their name again. Some of the waiting patients looked up and had an amused look on their faces and then there was a huge fit of giggles from the nurses and receptionist…
Two seconds later, the penny dropped and a huge embarrassed grin emerged from Dr M.
Dr M was looking for a patient named…..
Drew Peacock
thepianogenius said,
lol
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taaMMiee said,
Just drop by and say hi. This is a refreshing post! Made my day!
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thebiggee said,
Hahaha! Hi! I’m Joe King!
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