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What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Todays results:

Diarrhea for a week. Didn't think he needs to see a GP but today he felt it does not get better and he needs to see someone now.
Diarrhea and didn't feel good. Yeah. That's it.
Had a fall three days ago. Now the elbow hurts. Does not want to go to the GP/ED,but now the daughter has arrived and basically forced the patient.
Fall. Zero injuries. But the nursing home wanted to get
Another fall yesterday. Zero pain when not moving, minimal pain in slight bruise.

To be fair we had a massive multi vehicle (5 cars) accident as the last call (5min before the end of our shift) that required helicopter backup and everything (severe brain, spine, thorax and abdo trauma). But still...