Shadowfax deftly handles being asked for medical advice over the phone.
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“So I had to decide: what should I tell her? I could just abdicate all responsibility and tell her to get in to the ER. Safer, simpler, and the “textbook” answer.”
“Abdicate all responsibiity?” WHAT friggin’ responsibilty does a doctor have to a casual aquiantance who’s fishing for free advice about a potentially serious condition and who puts you at risk for malpractice exposure, at NO personal cost to herself whatsoever?
This has to be a tough situation for anyone in the medical field. I have a good friend that is also an ER doctor and if I don’t get a response I like from my doctor I will ask him for his advice. More often then not he agrees with my personal doctor which makes me feel better.
And when your doctor is wrong about your condition, you’ll get to sue them BOTH.
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