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Haha! Your derm is a HOOT! I was laughing outloud as I was reading your post. Back when I was in college, I had dermatologist that was a weirdo. He was very old, his office and medical instruments looked like they could have been taken directly from the 1920's. My first visit, he had me wash my face in his sink with straight Hibiclens (he had me using this at home too, without diluting) and then he 'treated' my entire face with a cotton ball dipped in a bowl of dry ice. This seemed to be his signature treatment, as he'd begin every visit in this way. He prescribed me accutane and, at the time, I knew none of the strict prescribing rules that are to be followed, as I was 20 years old, going to college hours from home and the internet was only just in its infancy. My derm didn't do any blood tests, never had me take a pregnancy test and gave no advice regarding alcohol consumption while taking accutane. I was a sophomore in college, a total party girl and taking this harsh poison prescribed by an ancient doctor because he told me to! I was under his 'care' for a year and 2 rounds of accutane, the last few months he just wrote out extra scripts for me, as I was moving to Italy for school for a year. I now look at that situation in HORROR! I knew something was amiss, as he didn't take insurance at all. Only cash. I wanted clear skin so badly, that I didn't tell my family I was taking accutane. I had brought up the strange methods of my derm at one point, to my sister who was in medical school at the time. She said he was a quack and I should go to another Dr. :-/
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Your derm seems a bit unorthodox, but she is right on the money as far as her advice and recommendations go. From your descriptions, she sounds as though she doesn't waste her time and energy on the mundane because she is too busy giving from her heart and putting her entire soul into her work. I think that is to be commended.
LMFAO! This made my day lol. That's some crazy story. Your derm and mine should meet, I have a feeling they'll get along lol.
I've got a couple new stories again (yes with the same derm hihi) . I've been to see her twice in two months (in june and july!) because my skin doesn't seem to respond well to the sulfur topicals she's been prescribing me. Oh well, now I'm using a mixture of Hydroval and Ihle's paste (otherwise known as diaper rash cream or zinc oxide) and hope that this will be the last time I'll see her.
Anyway, the waiting room's atmosphere is always the same everytime I go (the usual people telling newcomers that the derm's a weirdo and everything I said in my previous posts...lolz). It's funny to hear some convos to kill the time, too (cause 5hours wait is pretty damn long) . There was a guy chatting a girl up lol, and this teenage boy whispering next to me was saying how he's got better pickup lines haha, And another time, another guy was saying how we don't need to go to the club to meet people, but right here in the waiting room .
Remember how I said the derm always takes people in who have kids or babies before other patients (even if they showed up after them)? Well this time, there was at least 4-5 families who came in as if by purpose lol. I was like, really?! It's like past ten pm, and what are you doing carrying your baby past bedtime lol. If it was one patient with a baby, fine, I get it, but 4-5 patients coming in with their children/babies can't be a coincidence. I got to the walk-in clinic at 4 pm hoping to get out of there by at least 9-10 pm but I ended up leaving at midnight, just in time to catch the last bus.
I've got a couple new stories again (yes with the same derm hihi)
. I've been to see her twice in two months (in june and july!) because my skin doesn't seem to respond well to the sulfur topicals she's been prescribing me. Oh well, now I'm using a mixture of Hydroval and Ihle's paste (otherwise known as diaper rash cream or zinc oxide) and hope that this will be the last time I'll see her.
Anyway, the waiting room's atmosphere is always the same everytime I go (the usual people telling newcomers that the derm's a weirdo and everything I said in my previous posts...lolz). It's funny to hear some convos to kill the time, too (cause 5hours wait is pretty damn long) . There was a guy chatting a girl up lol, and this teenage boy whispering next to me was saying how he's got better pickup lines haha, And another time, another guy was saying how we don't need to go to the club to meet people, but right here in the waiting room
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Remember how I said the derm always takes people in who have kids or babies before other patients (even if they showed up after them)? Well this time, there was at least 4-5 families who came in as if by purpose lol. I was like, really?! It's like past ten pm, and what are you doing carrying your baby past bedtime lol. If it was one patient with a baby, fine, I get it, but 4-5 patients coming in with their children/babies can't be a coincidence. I got to the walk-in clinic at 4 pm hoping to get out of there by at least 9-10 pm but I ended up leaving at midnight, just in time to catch the last bus.
LOL!
This is TOO funny! I am always amused at how a long time in a waiting room can create a situation similar to an episode of a sitcom. (I have a strange way of turning mundane situations in life into episodes of Seinfeld in my head...it keeps me entertained!) I can TOTALLY see this as a Seinfeld episode!