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Good for you! Glad to hear it. Make sure you know when you are due to expire because they said they would send out a notice and didn't. Which wouldn't have been a problem if I'd realized that my "two-year license" was actually only for 20 months because your expiration reverts to your birth month, which no one bothered to tell me at the time and wasn't on the web site (I couldn't find it, anyway). So I actually worked past my expiration until I got a phone call from my employer saying I couldn't come to work until I had renewed, hence the trip to Baltimore after two days of no one answering. Good luck!

Par for the course. I've gotten licenses in NC, NY and MD and MD is by far (by FAR) the most difficult to deal with. Both when I was getting my license and this most recent renewal, I had to drive to Baltimore to deal with them in person because I couldn't get any answers via email or phone. First time I had to drive from New York, second time from 2.5 hours away. The first time I was there someone tried to light the place on fire. I am not joking. FD called for an arson fire.

JKL33 I think you make some excellent points, particularly that ultimately what's best for the patient is to be finished as quickly as possible. I will take your advice and approach him the way you've suggested. Thank you!

I've never had an issue setting up for a pelvic exam, then assisting by handing our docs speculum, swabs, cultures etc. Obviously am there as a chaperone then too. But there is one young doc who is frankly is a jerk, and I don't know whether it's because he's nervous conducting the exam on young ladies but he adopts this strange, bossy attitude with me, making little weird cracks like I work for him and all but snapping his fingers at me to get a move on with handing him swabs etc. It's happened more than once and is really strange. Frankly I don't care what the psychology is behind it at this point, I'm just done with it. My question is, I believe my role is to set up for the exam and be there as a chaperone but as it's not a sterile exam am I obligated to assist? He can open his own swabs and lube up his speculum just like I can. I've been doing it because it's helpful but if it's not appreciated then I'll just stand to the side. The next time a pelvic comes up I plan on taking him aside beforehand so we don't have an awkward conversation in front of the patient and let him know that I'll stay as chaperone but plan to allow him to manage his own exam. Thoughts?