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I have to say corporate is a mixed bag. Yesterday was a very mixed day.
I helped one patient who was scared she was going blind like her sister but actually had an episode of herpetic keratitis. Diagnosed one very definite glaucoma and one ocular hypertension. Succesfully fit some complicated presbyopic cases for bifocal contacts.
On the other hand a ghetto patient at the end of the day demanded to talk to me because I would not give her new trials lenses AGAIN since her exam was in October (yep, it's February now) and she did not show for her 1 week followup. We have a 90 days policy on cls fits. She told me she had a baby since then and complained of blurry vision (didn't mention the pregnancy to me at the exam, of course--and it wasn't obvious) When I explained to her as calmly as possible (and everyone who works corporate on a busy saturday in a fairly low income area knows how tenuous this calm is) that she needed to pay for a new exam she told me that our company was bull**** and screamed at me to "suck her ****". Then her group of gangbangers followed her out and tried to slam the door---haha, it doesn't slam. Thanks to that, I haven't slept all night--it's 8 in the morning and I have to be at work in two hours. Spent all night wondering whether or not I could have handled it better and whether or not I am a bad doctor. And whether I am going to get my new car jacked.
I have done $29 dollar eye exams--that was our grand opening special, xmattODx and I must work for the same entity. They're $39 now.There's also a sku for $1 eye exams which apparently the company uses in Minnesota.
On the upside, one more month and my credit card debt that I accumulated from school should be gone...
I helped one patient who was scared she was going blind like her sister but actually had an episode of herpetic keratitis. Diagnosed one very definite glaucoma and one ocular hypertension. Succesfully fit some complicated presbyopic cases for bifocal contacts.
On the other hand a ghetto patient at the end of the day demanded to talk to me because I would not give her new trials lenses AGAIN since her exam was in October (yep, it's February now) and she did not show for her 1 week followup. We have a 90 days policy on cls fits. She told me she had a baby since then and complained of blurry vision (didn't mention the pregnancy to me at the exam, of course--and it wasn't obvious) When I explained to her as calmly as possible (and everyone who works corporate on a busy saturday in a fairly low income area knows how tenuous this calm is) that she needed to pay for a new exam she told me that our company was bull**** and screamed at me to "suck her ****". Then her group of gangbangers followed her out and tried to slam the door---haha, it doesn't slam. Thanks to that, I haven't slept all night--it's 8 in the morning and I have to be at work in two hours. Spent all night wondering whether or not I could have handled it better and whether or not I am a bad doctor. And whether I am going to get my new car jacked.
I have done $29 dollar eye exams--that was our grand opening special, xmattODx and I must work for the same entity. They're $39 now.There's also a sku for $1 eye exams which apparently the company uses in Minnesota.
On the upside, one more month and my credit card debt that I accumulated from school should be gone...