So I walked into work this morning and the practice manager
said “Doctor, we need to send you to the hospital in City Z because their
doctor is sick and they have no doctor.”
Whaaaat? I’m still in training right?
I expressed my reservations (quite diplomatically) about
handling an ENTIRE clinic on my own so soon, and the practice manager assured
me that the other hospital wasn’t that busy, that the area managers approved
it, and everyone totally thought I could handle it.
I then drove another 15 miles up the road to City Z while
trying not to crap my pants.
As it turns out, the day went fine. I had two moments of big
panic:
1.
Afternoon appointment, cat had been seen the
previous day. Clients PO’ed about the bill exceeding the estimate yesterday and
that all of the problems weren’t fixed yesterday. (It turned out to be a cat
bite abscess which I got to lance and place a drain – yay!)
2.
Case from yesterday calls wanting to do a
recheck and follow up. Problem is, they’re in City X and I can’t access City X’s
appointment schedule or anything. After several phone calls we agreed that the
client would come to City X tomorrow when I’m back.
I also learned how to use the controlled drug log (until now
I haven’t had my own lock box to deal with). Yay?
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