In all my years going to the doctor, dentist, even hospital it has never occurred to me to thank them with baked goods. Mailpersons get Christmas checks in the mail (or so I think) so why shouldn't your doctor get some of your appreciation as well? At the clinic last Friday, one of the patients with 2 girls brought in a Carvel ice cream cake for the doctor. It said thanks, Dr. X and then had the two girls' names. I never knew people gave gifts to their doctors. That was a tasty cake too.
The second event, was the curious case of the interviewee's disappearance:
The clinic was recovering from an emergency and the front desk secretary had stepped in the back to take care of something. Mo and I were looking at a chart when this woman pokes her head in window looking for the secretary. Mo walks over to help her. She says that she is here with an application for employment. Background info: the clinic is looking to hire a bilingual assistant to take care of the front desk. So, Mo says, "X is out at the moment but if you come over here," and he leads her to the office and tells her to wait for X to come back to interview her. She sits down and Mo and I put a patient into a room and take vitals. We could not have been gone for more than 5 minutes when Mo notices the woman has left the room, and a quick check of the waiting room reveals that she has indeed left the building. We thought that quite odd, she couldn't even wait 5 minutes? She must have seen something she didn't like. Mo and I tell X and the doctor about the applicant with hot feet. Anyways, we carried on taking vitals and physical examinations of the patients when I notice the same lady sitting in the waiting room about to talk to X. I whisper to X that I think the same lady came back. She seemed slightly incredulous and asked me if I was sure and I confirmed that yes I was sure. X took the lady back into the same office and the doctor soon joined the two. A few minutes later the lady is walking out the door and the doctor is thanking her for her time. The gossip a little later is that the lady was called back in but the doctor noticed on the applicationt hat the lady couldn't work monday or wednesday evenings. The doctor told the lady she was sorry for calling her in and wasting her time if she couldn't work those evenings. Then the doctor asked her why she left earlier and she denied that it was her, she said she had not left and come back. She totally lied to a doctor at a job interview!
the last event, which actually occurred first was an emergency. A young girl, about 9 came in and after a 15 minute assessment the nurse decided the girl should go to the ER. I got to watch the procedures in an emergency situation, it was intensely serious and all the doctor's staff was aiding or watching.
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