Some people are BORN off their rocker!

Well, i don't believe people are born that way...but sometimes it makes me wonder how much people really care about their overall health. My pt this afternoon was a relative of someone i had recently seen, so she gave her my number. I thought "Cool," a patient i don't have to search for on my own! Anyway, her hhx was kind of extensive and there were two different things that premedication was needed for; she previously had rheumatic fever and a joint replacement, but she apparently is invincible or something and was "fine to have her cleaning without it." She made it difficult for me to communicate to her that i needed to do a physician consult and talk to her doctor. She was frustrated and a little impatient. She said the dr. she wrote down on her hhx form wouldn't "know a hill of beans" from what i know because when she went into his office she didn't put on her hhx there that she'd had rheumatic fever. I just don't understand! Does she not care about her health?

ANYWAY, to make a long story a little longer, her physician consult from the joint replacement said she needed premed.... so that would also take care of any heart problems from Rh.fever if there were any valvular probs. She said she would take some at home because she had a whole cupboard full of Amox, which i found funny because she also told me she's allergic to penicillan and derivitives of pen. Hmmm, anyway...Dr. Hopkin wrote her a RX for next time and we just did xrays only today and scheduled her to come back in April. She is heading to AZ for the winter and she said she would just get her teeth cleaned across the border in Mexico while she was there. HMMMM, very interesting. So, smell ya later, huh? SO, I had to vent. I have a large headache and can't wait to down a few IBuprof's when i walk in the door tonight. YIKES!
Hopefully she takes that premed next time, huh?!

So, i must give a shout out to Jeff Perry...-aka-...Evil eye. He came to console me an d calm my pt down who was waving her hands in the air! What are fake toes made out of??? I learned from jeff that they're made out of TEFLON. Man, he knows EVERYTHING!!! I don't even think my pt. knew that. OH, and one more thing. Sorry bout that "Privates Irritation" on the hhx. It was her who said it....I'm just the recorder!
--brick-lick--
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