Waiting Room Material

By Laura Heuer

Expert Health Organizer Consultant

So you sit in the waiting room…. Are you prepared? Prepared for what, you might ask? If you are in a waiting room or in the actual doctors office you should be prepared. Here are a few simple steps you can take to ensure a better visit.

• Write out your questions-if you have not done this prior to your office visit go ahead and do it while you are waiting.

•  Write out your symptoms and be specific - again if you have not done this prior to your office visit do this now while you are waiting.

• Write out your medications - you will always be ask what medications are you taking and what dose.

You may think you can wing it and of course you can but what happens when you wing anything? It just does not have as good as an outcome as it could have. Lets face it our health should be a higher priority then that.

The Medical Group Management Association says the average patient wait time is 15 minutes. The time spent with the doctor is on average 20 minutes.

Be fully prepared for your visit, your health is so important to you and to your loved ones.

If you are a long time patient and always waiting here is a way to past some of the time, click on the how to draw the impossible triangle and print if you wish. No drawing skills necessary.

How to Draw an Impossible Triangle

from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit

The “rule of three”, where arrangements of triplets have a pleasing effect on the eye, makes this triangle an intriguing shape to ponder and to create. It appears frequently in the art of MC Escher. It is also known as a Penrose triangle or tribar.

Steps

Method 1

1. Sketch an equilateral triangle. This will be the center of your triangle.
2. Lightly sketch two parallel lines outside one side of the triangle. The lines should be equally spaced. Take caution that your lines are drawn straight.
3. Do this for each of the other two sides. Your sketch should look like three triangles nested together.
4. Choose one side of the “center” triangle. Extend one end of that straight line until it reaches the “middle” triangle.
5. Find the same side of the “middle” triangle. Extend one end of that straight line, in the same direction as before, until it reaches the “outside” triangle.
6. Repeat steps for the other two sides of the triangle.
7. Erase short segments so that the triangle begins to look three-dimensional rather than flat. Each edge of this “3-D” shape should look like a reverse “L”.
8. Add short segments at an angle in the corners. These short segments will finish off the outside points.
9. Cleanup your drawing by erasing the points outside of the short segments drawn in the previous step.
10. Add shading if desired.

Method 2

1. Draw a triangle and extend the ends of the lines past where they join.
2. Draw lines from these tips, extending them beyond the corners of the inner triangle.
3. Draw in the ‘corners’.
4. Draw in the final long lines to connect the corners.

Tips

• After you learn this basic optical illusion, you can experiment with more complex arrangements.

Related wikiHows

• How to Draw an Impossible Cube
• How to Draw an Impossible Cube with a Highlighter
• How to Draw an Impossible Cube Using a Pencil
• How to Draw the Triforce

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