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"The lights were low" - no, this is not the beginning of a romance novel, it's how it was when I walked into this doctor's family practice clinic. I felt really uptight - I don't have insurance, and was expecting the worst, some zinger of a bill at the very end, some fee, something they hadn't told me about.
The front office was kind of cramped, I admit, the phone ringing, scheduling...but then this calm relaxed medical assistant led me to the room, took my blood pressure (I mean, put a cuff over my arm that automatically inflated and deflated and gave the reading), asked me a few questions...there was some fake plastic lawn growing on the windowsill, and then two of those curlique bamboo plants in glass vases...all very calm, serene...I almost started asking her about her job...I could do her job...how much training did she need for her job, and what did it pay?
So then the doc examines me wth two nurse practitioners...yes, shingles, which I already had figured out from my symptoms..."a very bad case" - so then he was talking about pain I might have, after shingles subsided - I said, "postherpetic neuralgia" (that's right, I was a medical transcriptionist, I know what he means) - he said, "you are knowledgable" - of course if I was so knowlegeable would I have a bad case of shingles?
Anyway, it was a positive experience, and made me think, I can get out of daycare and away from toddler illnesses...I mean, I've worked in clinics before and never gotten anything from patients...there are all kinds of jobs out there...maybe I don't want to work at a hospital, but at a small clinic where the lights are low....now maybe that's a possibility...I've got a whole week off from my daycare job to job hunt!!! Thanks, doc!
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