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One day in Clinic
Today is Monday, the day of my mentor's/monitor's(not sure which you mean) clinic day. He is pretty busy today. There are a lot of patints waiting for him, including the new patients, patients with postoperative problems and some patients who came for their routine follow-up. All the patients come here at their appointed time and wait in an assigned waiting room(Waiting room or examination room? The waiting room usually has many patients, the exam room just has one patient). Doctors know exactly who are these patients are and what are their problems need to be fixed. The examinations are tiny limited/brief? and not in a hurried. That is quite diffrent from those in China. In China, doctors may encountered dozens of patients with unknown conditions, and the waiting room is messed up disorganized/crowded every time. Patients come randomly to the hospital, crowded together, and try to get to the front of the line and even crowd into the doctor's office. Doctors are busy asking every patient's condition, let them doing the related examinations and writing prescriptions for some of them. Normally each doctor will see from twenty to hundreds(hundreds or a hundred?) of patients in a morning. They are so busy every that each patients can only probably get 3 to 5 minutes with a doctor, and the doctors don't even have no time to think carefully about the disease(diagnosis?). I have been asked for several times about the difference between Chinese doctors and American doctors. I would say that the difference between doctors in the two countries is tiny, but the conditions in which they are working in are very different! I do not want to say further more, but there is a funny suppose, what do you think if the doctors switched places their works between China and the US. I would laugh all day and talk to the patients about my dog-walking experiences in the park.
Thank you very much for having the patience to read and correct this. I am going to write something about the billing things tomorrow. Thank you again!
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