Medical School Class of 2015 Day #2

Today was better than yesterday :) NO falling down the stairs!

So some very important individuals talked to us today about Hippa, professionalism, patient-minded behavior, student health policies, parking (oh boy is this a problem-UMMC parks 2.4 million cars every year....yikes!), and many other topics....like "this will be the hardest thing you will ever do" and "please done take any drugs that aren't yours" and "when we play the dental students in intramurals....we MUST win" We were reminded on SEVERAL occasions that Marijuana is Illegal, ha you would think this would be common sense to medical student lol.

Oh another note I had a frustrating tooth ache. It has been bothering me for a few days and I had been calling all the dentists in the area to see if anyone would be willing to look at it under such short notice.....no one was willing unfortunately. Dr. Clark (our dean of students who has a fantasitc dry wit and a dear love for medical students) has been leading us through orientation for the past couple days. He has been a pleasure to get to know and I can already tell I am going to like him alot. Every student that got up to the podium today said that Dr. Clark would become one of favorite people on campus and that he had a solution to any problem and he was the man to get things done. Well I thought to myself "I wonder if he can work magic and get me a dentist appointment before classes start next monday." I knew it would be hard doing this because no dentist that I had tried to see could see me before the end of August. But I thought it wouldn't hurt to try. I told Dr. Clark my story of how my tooth had started hurting for a couple days and I was out of luck trying to find a dentist, this conversation took place at 3:00. With one phone call, I had me an appointment for 4:15. Amazing!

On a positive note, it appears my tooth is fine, my molar gums are a little sore from over flossing them :)


Salt and Light,

Kelly

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