let me start off by saying that yesterday was not what i expected at all. In the month between posts a lot of stuff has happened. I almost got fired before I even started, Enrique started to get on my nerves, and i grew more and more paranoid each passing day that i was going to get yelled at on my first day.
Okay first stuff now, I walked in expecting to be thrown into the deep in with a mountain of patients to see and a person yelling at me at every possible opportunity. Well..... That didn't happen. The first day went like this; I went there, set up the clinic, got a practitioner (Zak), saw a patient, saw another patient, took a dinner break, went to talk to the doctors twice, and then spent 2-3 hours talking with people because there was nothing to do. It was extremely laid back except for a brief window of time when I had to interact with patients. It wasn't what I expected at all... My practitioner told me that this is what I should expect for the rest of my Westminster career. Let's hope that isn't the case.
What stood out to me this week was how patient the patients were while waiting for the doctor to see them. My second patient waited for 4 hours with relatively little trouble or anxiety. How do they do it.... How do they sit through months of pain then wait patiently to see a doctor for 10 minutes.
See you guys next time,
AZC
