Bonjour~
Seriously i miss paris..i've been twice but the second time i went i dont really appreciate the beauty for already being there..but now i regret it. We should always appreciate thing around us you know...
Ok i finish my primary care like 4 month ago..primary care is the daily care of dental practice, where u meet daily patient who need check-up, scalling, filling, extraction etc. Sometime (very rare) u will see emergency pt who need suturing, who dislodge their jaw and so on. You do some management work, you do ceramah and go for community service. It's all in one clinic. We are require to work in primary clinic for 4months..but in my case it's 7 month due to the lack of officer. Unlucky me.
The thing is i start my 1st posting in worst clinic (everyone said so, so my 1st impression on that clinic is bad). My first day is outpatients day where all the uncles and unties come to get their teeth extract, checkup. No filling or scalling or any long procedure. Andddddd my permanent officer aka my boss is on leave and it is the worst. I left dentistry for 4 monthhh before i start working, my carting mixed up, i dont even clearly remember how to give id or how to extraxt, i dont know how to use coupland and i think i'm going to die. Luckly one relief officer came, she help me with the loads of patients, teach me how to use coupland and help me with the difficult extraction. From that day i learn, not within that day lah but with time i become more skillfull and fast. The thing with staff is they will pressure you, asking you to work faster and so but you just ignore them. Just remember that you are the doctor, u make decision. But some experience staff should not be taken lightly, sometime they know more than us so u decide which advice you want to take or which u dont.
But whatever it is u must learn to work fast without ignoring the beauty and art of your work. I mean fast but not cincai2 work...u extract fast and neat, minimal trauma to the tissue and patient. Pretty aesthetic filling, make you patient satisfied. You know why because there will be hundreds of patient waiting outside while you did your 1hr one class1 amalgam restoration. Seriouslyyyy...this is not pre-graduate year. 1st few weeks its okay la but you better get use to it fast or the staff will talk behind your back, tell other officer and you will have longgg waiting list. And dont expext the facilities are as good as your uni facility. It is usable but old, and rusty and low quality. Like you only have 2 or 3 composit shade, very poor amalgam, no impreesion compound, handpiece all rusty, and chair that cannot move. For me, my clinic chair is 10yrs old 2nd hand chair, donno how many year the clinic before us used that but it is there for 10yrs +. And the chair basicly can only move up and down. Handpiece not working, scaller, lamp all not working.Sometime in the middle of scalling the suction stop suctioning, and i have to get up and kick the compressor anddd it will be working againn,...yeay ( the patient was looking at me like i'm the most dangerous criminal for kicking that old thing). Sometime while drilling teeth the lamp popped, or the cover fall down to your head or your patient face if she/he is unlucky or while doing drilling the chair decided that he is too tired and stop working and no matter what you do he will not regain his conciousness. So u just
Stop and put some temporary on it to cover. See that how poor our dental health facilities are.
But the most difficult part are yet to come..the management! The files, the paperwork, the staffs all are making me crazy. my clinic staff are either very old stubborn staff or 'staff buangan' who other clinic cannot handle they send them there. some are very stubborn and rude! Have you ever heard any boss being shout by their staff? I had in my clinic..my previous ym( yang menjaga-how cute kan) is a very nice chinese guy, he's so nice that the staff bully him. He basicly run the clinic himself! No body is helping him until i came. Then, he couldnt stand it and ask for transfer..can you imagine my 7 month there i got 3 bosses( the current one also ask for transfer i heard)
so whatever it is just be prepared ok...until next timeeee