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[grandinsurg]

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What's the protocol for arranging personal appointments as an intern/resident (our own doctor's appointments) so as not to annoy fellow residents?

Also, can doctors make scripts out or call them in for ourselves? (ie. cortisone cream for eczema).

 

[Winged Scapula]

What's the protocol for arranging personal appointments as an intern/resident (our own doctor's appointments) so as not to annoy fellow residents?

They are to be made on your post-call days or other days off.

Also, can doctors make scripts out or call them in for ourselves? (ie. cortisone cream for eczema).

Technically you can especially for non-scheduled drugs. Some will, others prefer to have their own PCP write the scripts.

 

[JackADeli]

What's the protocol for arranging personal appointments as an intern/resident (our own doctor's appointments) so as not to annoy fellow residents?

They are to be made on your post-call days or other days off..

Agreed, If you are scheduling anything in a manner to not annoy colleagues....then you are scheduling it on your post-call day/s

...can doctors make scripts out or call them in for ourselves? (ie. cortisone cream for eczema).

Technically you can especially for non-scheduled drugs. Some will, others prefer to have their own PCP write the scripts.

This is a tricky subject getting trickier by the year. The AMA has a strict position against writing scripts for friends and families. It says you shouldn't. Each state has to varying degrees a policy position on just this matter. "Self-prescribing" is strongly discouraged if not completely forbidden. Also, if a state license board wants to pick a fight with you, they will audit your scripts. They then compare it to your patient medical files. If they find you have been writing for patients that are NOT formally patients of you/your partner/practice you can find yourself in a great deal of trouble. I have seen one resident stripped of license and tossed from residency (obviously an extreme). The language used on the med-board public site was "unprofessional" and "prescribing medications without proper patient evaluation and maintenance of records".

On another note, it is easier to just set a firm policy on how you write from the beginning.... otherwise you become the PCP for convenience script writing for all the nurses and ancillary staff.

JAD

 

[Pir8DeacDoc]

I write myself for lac-hydrin for dry skin and the occasional z pack. I haven't required more than that but if it came to more I'd have my personal doctor handle it. Treating yourself can be a recipe for disaster in terms of good care and with the medical boards.