Tuesday, November 9, 2010
My very first clinic without a patient! :(
Well today I had scheduled my "friend" in the morning and he was going to come in. He has been bugging me for a while that he wants his teeth cleaned so I scheduled him for today. Well he ended up not coming and I ended up without a patient. He acted like he forgot but I know he did it on purpose I had just talked to him about the appointment and it take more than one day to forget you have an appointment you have been bugging to get. Anyways I am not ever counting on him or even scheduling him for that matter. He can go get his teeth cleaned somewhere else and with someone who is willing to have him no show. This afternoon I had a friend of my sister come in. She came in and she was just a 1b but its better than having no one. The cleaning went well although it seems like I was shaking the whole time because I was so nervous. I don't really know her and she being the friend of my sister it made me more nervous. I don't think I am very smart I just pretend to be. Well that was it for clinic today. :)
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Pam,
You are awesome and such a great hygienist! I have had those kind of days when patients don't show up. Just last week I had a patient cancel on me. Then I schedules someone else the night before and they cancelled on me that morning. So I definitly know it can be stressful. I think you always do such a great job!
Pam, I can definitely tell you those "forgetful" patients never go away! In my private practice I have a patient that was scheduled for a Tuesday after missing his original appointment a few weeks before and we called and reminded him the night before and I remember discussing how forgetful he is with him on the phone. The next day, he doesn't show and he finally calls after his appointment and reschedules his cleaning for that Thursday... once again, we call and remind him, we even call throughout the day to remind him again and he doesn't show. We eventually did get him in but we had to schedule it the night before, explain to him how much we go in the hole every time he doesn't show and then tell him he has to come to the next one or pay the $50.00 fine for no showing. Then we called him three times the day of his appointment and he finally dragged his forgetful behind into my chair and we got him cleaned. OBNOXIOUS!!!! hehe, you'll be alright though, as long as they can see you're trying and knowing you, you're more than trying!
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