November 23, 2009

First patient day. First day I felt like giving up. What a disaster! I made so many stupid mistakes and continued to feel more and more stessed and less and less confident. Luckily, my mom was very patient with me and I did end up getting good scores. I definitely learned a few lessons the hard way, though: 1. put the earpieces on the stethoscope TOWARDS your actual ear drums, 2. take x-ray retakes on the correct side of the mouth, 3. put recession measurements where it says "recession" and pocket depths where it says "pocket depths", otherwise you have to erase it all. What a fabulous day of education! :D