Busy and Painful Week + Retarded Dentist at Kulim + JID
Last Week, Aug 6 - 12 (WW32), was a very busy week for me, and painful one. Busy because I had to coordinate the lab move at my workplace. It was not trivial tasks as it involves interacting with so many different parties, both internal and external of Intel. After much coordination work, the lab was successfully moved last Friday. Everything went pretty smoothly, except for a few glitches that need to be taken care of.
Now to the painful part... No, it's not because of the lab move. Well, maybe the move contributed a little, but the pain really came from my toothache. I had my tooth patched twice since last year. It was giving me problems on and off, but not as bad as last week. I could even feel the pain going to my ears! I think it's due to the pain from my tooth that got propagated to the other nerves. Anyway, I would love to take half a day off to get this painful problem fixed, but couldn't becaused I had to coordinate the lab move. If I had taken off, I could only imagine the havoc that would ensue... I endured the pain until the lab move's over.
After struggling through the week, Saturday finally came. I promised myself to get up really early Saturday and queue up at the only Intel panel dental clinic in Kulim that I know of - Yoga Dental Clinic. The dental clinic that I used to go to - Tang Dental Clinic, closed shop because the dentist had a brain tumor and couldn't even recognize his own family members anymore, sad...
Anyway, I woke up 8am Saturday morning (even though I slept late, around 3:30am), and headed to the clinic. I started queing around 8:30am, even then, I was not the first, but the second in line. The clinic opened around 9am, and I went through the registration process that was surprisingly simple and crude. All that the nurse asked for is my medical card, and IC. She wrote down my details and reason for visiting the clinic (take note that I told her that I had a toothache, and wanted my teeth cleaned) on a small piece of paper (a size of those stick'em), on one line. She wrote one line for one patient. Wow.... I mean, she didn't even asked if I'd been to the clinic before and get me a proper patient record card. Nevermind that... I sat and waited for my turn.
Since I was 2nd, sure enough my name was called shortly. I went in, greeted the doctor, but he didn't greet back. He gestured to me to sit on the operation chair, which I did, although the chair didn't look too clean. The dentist came over and without asking about my tootache started cleaning my teeth. All along the process I could only hear him mumble something to the nurse once in a while. I never recalled him asking me to spit and clean my mouth during the cleaning process, even when the cleaning was over! I think I swallowed some of the dirt in the cleaning process. I was not too happy, but I didn't make a fuss over it.
Once the cleaning's done, the dentist again mumbled "Come back in 6 months time", and quickly jumped to the next room where a patient was waiting. I sat at my chair wondering what was he doing!?!? Hello... my tooth's aching? I looked at the nurse at the next room, giving her the look that says... "Hello, I have a tootache? What is going on here?" Well, she didn't get the message, so I had to point to my tooth and tell her that I have a tootache that needs to be attended to.
After couple of minutes, the dentist came back. I had to tell him that I have a tootache, and tried to describe as much as possible to him before he would do something! He didn't ask any questions or even try to diagnose my problem!! Unbelievably retarded. I told him that I had my tooth patched before, and it's aching again, and that the pain' quite severe. Again, he didn't ask any follow-up questions, and just started to take out the old filing and put in new ones. Again, when he's doing the filling, he didn't ask me to spit and clean my mouth until the whole thing's over! I think I swallowed some more dirt that round. I was really frustrated at that point... My tooth was still aching, and the dentist didn't say a thing, but quickly jumped to the next room again!! In my mind, I thought to myself the dentist' either a mute or a retard...
I left the dentist' room, and went to the counter, where the nurse asked me to sign a form saying that I've been treated and charged RM45. I was reluctant to do so at first after the bad service received, but I signed anyway. In addition, I asked if there's any medicine to ease the pain. Nothing! 没有! Elek! Can you believe the ludicrousity of that?!!? I even had to ask when I need to return if the pain did not subside, what food should I avoid, etc. My goodness, how retarded can the clinic be!
Special thanks to gnelia for being a good listener. She spent a good hour or so listening to my whine, which I topped with cheese. =)
Guess what, the pain remained after that, and I had to endure it for another day! I had to ease the pain by sleeping 7 hours after the dental visit. I had to wake up around 5:05pm to attend the Toastmasters Joint Installation Dinner (JID) held at City BayView Hotel in Penang. As a side note, the JID is a dinner event to install new Toastmasters Club EXCO member. Due to Intel's efficiency exercise (in laymen's term - retrenchment), the past president was efficiensized from Intel, and I was elected to become the Club President. Interesting how things turned out... The event lasted for 6 hours, I didn't expect it to be that long. But that's how long I had to endure the pain from my toothache. I didn't do much after returning from the JID event, I slept.
Thsi morning, the ache's still there, and I just couldn't stand it anymore. I drove to Kulim town to find this non-panel dental clinic that my fellow Toastmaster told me about the previous night. Thank God I found it, and had my tooth looked at. Now, this dentist, Dr. Koh is much much more professional compared to Yoga. She helped diagnosed my problem, and put some medicine to my tooth and repatched it. If the pain still persist, I would have to have the root of my tooth removed next round. Sounds scary, but... I'd do it if the pain would just go away. I was given some painkillers before leaving the clinic, and I was only charged RM40.
The results are good so far, I don't feel as much pain as before, and hope that it would go away after a day or 2. If not... back to the dentist, and have the root of the tooth removed. Ouch...
Now to the painful part... No, it's not because of the lab move. Well, maybe the move contributed a little, but the pain really came from my toothache. I had my tooth patched twice since last year. It was giving me problems on and off, but not as bad as last week. I could even feel the pain going to my ears! I think it's due to the pain from my tooth that got propagated to the other nerves. Anyway, I would love to take half a day off to get this painful problem fixed, but couldn't becaused I had to coordinate the lab move. If I had taken off, I could only imagine the havoc that would ensue... I endured the pain until the lab move's over.
After struggling through the week, Saturday finally came. I promised myself to get up really early Saturday and queue up at the only Intel panel dental clinic in Kulim that I know of - Yoga Dental Clinic. The dental clinic that I used to go to - Tang Dental Clinic, closed shop because the dentist had a brain tumor and couldn't even recognize his own family members anymore, sad...
Anyway, I woke up 8am Saturday morning (even though I slept late, around 3:30am), and headed to the clinic. I started queing around 8:30am, even then, I was not the first, but the second in line. The clinic opened around 9am, and I went through the registration process that was surprisingly simple and crude. All that the nurse asked for is my medical card, and IC. She wrote down my details and reason for visiting the clinic (take note that I told her that I had a toothache, and wanted my teeth cleaned) on a small piece of paper (a size of those stick'em), on one line. She wrote one line for one patient. Wow.... I mean, she didn't even asked if I'd been to the clinic before and get me a proper patient record card. Nevermind that... I sat and waited for my turn.
Since I was 2nd, sure enough my name was called shortly. I went in, greeted the doctor, but he didn't greet back. He gestured to me to sit on the operation chair, which I did, although the chair didn't look too clean. The dentist came over and without asking about my tootache started cleaning my teeth. All along the process I could only hear him mumble something to the nurse once in a while. I never recalled him asking me to spit and clean my mouth during the cleaning process, even when the cleaning was over! I think I swallowed some of the dirt in the cleaning process. I was not too happy, but I didn't make a fuss over it.
Once the cleaning's done, the dentist again mumbled "Come back in 6 months time", and quickly jumped to the next room where a patient was waiting. I sat at my chair wondering what was he doing!?!? Hello... my tooth's aching? I looked at the nurse at the next room, giving her the look that says... "Hello, I have a tootache? What is going on here?" Well, she didn't get the message, so I had to point to my tooth and tell her that I have a tootache that needs to be attended to.
After couple of minutes, the dentist came back. I had to tell him that I have a tootache, and tried to describe as much as possible to him before he would do something! He didn't ask any questions or even try to diagnose my problem!! Unbelievably retarded. I told him that I had my tooth patched before, and it's aching again, and that the pain' quite severe. Again, he didn't ask any follow-up questions, and just started to take out the old filing and put in new ones. Again, when he's doing the filling, he didn't ask me to spit and clean my mouth until the whole thing's over! I think I swallowed some more dirt that round. I was really frustrated at that point... My tooth was still aching, and the dentist didn't say a thing, but quickly jumped to the next room again!! In my mind, I thought to myself the dentist' either a mute or a retard...
I left the dentist' room, and went to the counter, where the nurse asked me to sign a form saying that I've been treated and charged RM45. I was reluctant to do so at first after the bad service received, but I signed anyway. In addition, I asked if there's any medicine to ease the pain. Nothing! 没有! Elek! Can you believe the ludicrousity of that?!!? I even had to ask when I need to return if the pain did not subside, what food should I avoid, etc. My goodness, how retarded can the clinic be!
Special thanks to gnelia for being a good listener. She spent a good hour or so listening to my whine, which I topped with cheese. =)
Guess what, the pain remained after that, and I had to endure it for another day! I had to ease the pain by sleeping 7 hours after the dental visit. I had to wake up around 5:05pm to attend the Toastmasters Joint Installation Dinner (JID) held at City BayView Hotel in Penang. As a side note, the JID is a dinner event to install new Toastmasters Club EXCO member. Due to Intel's efficiency exercise (in laymen's term - retrenchment), the past president was efficiensized from Intel, and I was elected to become the Club President. Interesting how things turned out... The event lasted for 6 hours, I didn't expect it to be that long. But that's how long I had to endure the pain from my toothache. I didn't do much after returning from the JID event, I slept.
Thsi morning, the ache's still there, and I just couldn't stand it anymore. I drove to Kulim town to find this non-panel dental clinic that my fellow Toastmaster told me about the previous night. Thank God I found it, and had my tooth looked at. Now, this dentist, Dr. Koh is much much more professional compared to Yoga. She helped diagnosed my problem, and put some medicine to my tooth and repatched it. If the pain still persist, I would have to have the root of my tooth removed next round. Sounds scary, but... I'd do it if the pain would just go away. I was given some painkillers before leaving the clinic, and I was only charged RM40.
The results are good so far, I don't feel as much pain as before, and hope that it would go away after a day or 2. If not... back to the dentist, and have the root of the tooth removed. Ouch...
posted by Mark Lee at 6:22 AM
4 Comments:
As I was reading, I couldn't help laughing..not bcoz I was happy of the pain u went through but the way u blogged it ..sorry for that.. hope that your gigi will soon get better and would not have to be extracted..
Oh, congrats on the president position..another busy task..
Thank you. =)
Hi was googling over for a good dental clinic in Kulim wherby i saw your blog. Thank u for writting abt clinic Yoga as for me not a fan in dental check up coz too many nightmares. Anyway if you dont mind can u give me the address or contact number of the second clinic Dr.Koh u mention in ur blog. Thanks.
Hi was googling over for a good dental clinic in Kulim wherby i saw your blog. Thank u for writting abt clinic Yoga as for me not a fan in dental check up coz too many nightmares. Anyway if you dont mind can u give me the address or contact number of the second clinic Dr.Koh u mention in ur blog. Thanks.
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