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It would seem the medical profession is still short staffed and letting new students loose on their patients. Currently shaking my head over a

Posted by Meg (aka Mojave) Aug 20 '24, 16:10

visit to Kaiser's Urgent Care on Sunday.

Started okay, young assistant took my BP, weight, and temp, then took me to a room and started reviewing my history.
Looked at my prescription list "are you still taking?" and proceeds to identify them by scientific names which he has trouble pronouncing.

"No idea. I'm taking them for such-and-such"

"Do you take multivitamins?"

"No, I take B12, B-complex, and Calcium with D"

"Ah, multivitamins"??

Topper was when he held up my urine specimen -
"Ah, definitely blood in that"

"No, it's orange because of the OTC meds I told you I was taking!"

Since when does an assistant make an on-the-spot visible diagnosis to a patient??

~end rant~ :)

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Likely a medical assistant, doubt med student would be doing the initial rooming. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Aug 20, 16:31 4
- True - I wasn't sure exactly where they fit but he seemed extremely undertrained to be let loose on patients. - Meg Aug 20, 16:39 3
  - The medical assistants really shouldn't give an opinion as they aren't trained to do it... but unfortunately a - James Bond (aka Igor) Aug 20, 19:39 1
    - That was my opinion, particularly as I was pretty sure he didn't know what he was talking about :/ -- nm - Meg Aug 20, 21:31
  - Guess I'm just spoiled by my regular Docs and their assistants who know me and my background and what I do in my spare time :/ -- nm - Meg Aug 20, 16:53
July and August are not the best months to go to the hospital. Recent med school graduates start in July and at the same time others get bumped up so - Krusty Aug 20, 16:17 1
- Ah yes, I remember my time in Infectious Diseases with a new batch of fellows every July 1. - Baron of the Rings Aug 20, 16:43

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