Ugh! I can't STAND this!

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Specializes in Oncology.

Someone I haven't seen since High School im'ed me. I ignored him at first, since there's almost always some motive behind im'ing me. He persisted, and I ended up answering. He told me he suddenly had the worst headache of his life, is blacking out, and his BP is up. I told him to go the ER, of course. But isn't that so obnoxious when people just come out of the blue to ask for medical advice?

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Specializes in LTC.

Yup, I don't like it either.

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Have had it happen a few times and I agree, you don't hear from someone for ages, and all they want is medical advise when you do.

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I just send them a bill.

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Specializes in Psychiatric.

My standard response is 'I am not your doctor. Go see your doctor.' (except for mom...even then I'll say 'I am not a doctor...it could be X, Y, or Z...but call YOUR doctor'!) lol

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Specializes in critical care, PACU.

yeah its funny instead of being excited to profess my new graduate nursingness to the world, I dont want anyone to know so they'll stop pestering me with uncomfortable questions.

isnt it weird how some people can ask you the most bizarre, intimate health questions yet they clam up with their own md?

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Specializes in PACU.

I don't care about the questions. It's when people start dropping their pants and expecting me to Dx lesions that I start to get annoyed. :barf01:

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LMAO! Okay, I am a first semester student, and yesterday I had an associate (who rarely speaks to me), come up to me to and says "I know you are a nursing student, maybe you know this... my family member has been recently diagnosed with brain cancer and had the tumor removed, and now his eyes are bulging out, and the shunt they put in his stomach is causing an abcess... do you think this is normal? Do you know why his eyes are bulging out?"

Umm... sorry lady; we are learning occupied bed baths and ROM's right now. :rolleyes:

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Specializes in Med Surg-Geriatrics.

It is annoying but remember to always tell them,"I advise you to see your Dr." as a nurse you cannot diagnose and should not dispense medical advise

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Specializes in med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.

I have a family member who is a drug addict from the word go. Needless to say, she was overjoyed when I became an NP. That was the ONLY time in my career that I was actually glad that NPs can not write for scheduled drugs in my state (any other time, it gripes the crap out of me). Therefore, no unlimited pill pipeline for her, more's the pity.

Heck I won't even write MYSELF anything, I wouldn't even write for PLO gel last week when I had gastroenteritis (and a very big TY to my DH for sharing), so there is no way I'd write anything for anyone that was not my patient. Just saves a whole passel of trouble down the road.

I agree, it's a line that most people would never cross, but yet, it's OK, because "you're in the field".

Drives me insane, even more so when THEY WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL THEM TO (i.e: go to the doc/ER/whatever)!

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The funniest one (well, funny from my perspective) was when my DMIL called to tell me she had a stick stuck up her nose. That's right. She was mowing when a small piece of branch at least a cm in diameter went flying up her schnozz and got stuck. Against my better judgement, I did try to help her get it out but it was really wedged up in there, and ended up sending her to the ER.

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