The weight of the pad

Sometimes your prescription pad feels very very heavy. You don't realize until you're not a resident anymore how many people will casually ask you for scrips who aren't your patients. Nurses at the hospital, family members, neighbors, people ask on behalf of other people. Often it feels like it's something trivial and there's no harm but there's always a voice in the back of my mind telling me that I don't have a chart on this person and I don't have any documentation of what they told me and that I could get in big trouble... Of course I take these things on a case by case basis - is it an emergency? Is it a day or location when they have no access to care otherwise? Do I trust this person to take my advice?

An example - I got a text from a friend while I was at the cottage and she had an infected cat bite. I couldn't see the bite so I sent her to the ER for assessment but she was really pissed that I wouldn't just call in an Rx for antibiotics.

Sometimes people take advantage of you because you're new and young and want to make a good impression i.e. nurses at the hospital. It's a hard line to walk and the pen sometimes feels very heavy.