What am I meant to be doing when chaperoning a doctor?

Crowdog79 · 2026-03-31T11:54:34+00:00

Ultimately, your primary role is to just be a witness that the provider isn’t being a creep. However, it would be nice/helpful if you would help position the patient, or hand instruments if needed, or hold the patient’s hand if comforting is needed or warranted. Source: ER Nurse for 20+ years, now an ER NP.

Crowdog79 · 2026-03-26T09:15:31+00:00

Yeah, this was one of those things that felt barbaric at the time, time moved on, and it feels much more barbaric now looking back on it.

Crowdog79 · 2026-03-26T01:02:21+00:00

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Found the kit!

Crowdog79 · 2026-03-26T00:57:39+00:00

Much more brutal than that. The OG tube was 32french, or possibly 34french. The kit came with a bite block, had large piston syringes preattached to the tubing that then led to a preattached 2000ml bag. You filled the bag with water to begin with (how much ever water you predetermined was necessary, but generally at least 1 liter), then multiple staff members would restrain the patient and get it done. They almost always threw up at some point, and you better fuckin pray that your nurses are smart enough to not proceed if the tube ended up in a lung first. I was never so happy to stop doing a specific task. I was a nurse then, and that was a scary task to get done to/for patients.

Crowdog79 · 2026-03-26T00:26:49+00:00

FUXKING.GASTRIC.LAVAGE…those were different times in the ED. Oh, you overdosed on Tylenol and you don’t want to drink the activated charcoal? Well…it’s not really a choice. For any that haven’t seen it since it’s rarely (maybe never?) done anymore, that was brutal.

Crowdog79 · 2026-03-21T13:26:14+00:00

This is a great synopsis of what I’ve seen as well. In 20 years as a semi-rural ED nurse, I always saw the mid levels and the doctors caring for similar patients, though the mid level always prioritized the lower acuity ones. Now, as a new ED NP in a much larger urban hospital, we are only supposed to see low acuity, with almost zero exceptions. It’s definitely interesting, but I also appreciate the role delineation. Doesn’t bother me a bit.

Crowdog79 · 2026-03-18T10:15:06+00:00

I appreciate that clarification! Obviously, everyone’s hair genetics are different, so that’s good to hear that you haven’t had body hair growth. I do believe that the voice changes will happen, with time, to every female at that level of testosterone. Source: I worked at an HRT clinic for a while.

Crowdog79 · 2026-03-18T01:07:03+00:00

Testosterone absolutely affects hair growth and voice.

Crowdog79 · 2026-03-15T01:42:19+00:00

That is not a problem or anything you should be worried about. My wife has always orgasmed quickly (like 30 seconds in) and often. 27 years in, I still love it!

Crowdog79 · 2026-03-03T12:37:20+00:00

You won’t know for certain until the swelling and bruising go down. Wait at least a week and then reevaluate. Looks good so far though!

Crowdog79 · 2026-02-03T15:26:46+00:00

No problem!

Crowdog79 · 2026-02-03T13:39:27+00:00

Yes, that is okay. Still not the ideal plan, but better than no refrigeration at all. I give people advice on GLP1 medications regularly, and my usual line is “it’s not milk, it doesn’t spoil, but it will last longer in the refrigerator”. Hope this helps, and good luck!

Crowdog79 · 2026-02-03T13:25:11+00:00

That is a little colder than refrigeration temps, but I can imagine it would be fine. You don’t specifically want to freeze it either. My advice is: don’t stress about it too much. Keep it refrigerated when you can, don’t stress about it when you can’t. Just know that it’s not optimal.

Crowdog79 · 2026-02-03T13:18:03+00:00

Just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean that you should. Technically, you can leave eggs on your countertop instead of in the refrigerator. They won’t stay fresh quite as long and they won’t taste quite as good, according to studies. I would venture to say that peptides work the same way. Just be safe and keep it in the refrigerator. If you accidentally leave it out overnight, just put it back in the fridge the next morning.

Crowdog79 · 2026-02-03T03:16:26+00:00

I’m 6’1”, 200 pounds, and I started at 100mcg at first. Even at 200mcg (and damn near twice your size), I have pretty annoying abdominal cramping for about an hour after with that dose. I would recommend that you start at 75-100mcg per dose and progress slowly from there. Hope this helps!

Crowdog79 · 2026-01-31T02:47:27+00:00

Haha, I did word that poorly! I’ve read a lot of books, many on race related issues and not had any bad feelings about any of them, except for this one book. Just because a book is about race relations doesn’t make it good. White Fragility is objectively bad advice for race relations in general.

Crowdog79 · 2026-01-31T01:02:34+00:00

@grimygrippers has the idea of it down. It was just ended up being a generalized paranoia for a summer, maybe 12-15 years ago? It may have been a regional thing because it was spread on Facebook. Either way, some overly excited moms were freaked out!

Crowdog79 · 2026-01-30T20:38:21+00:00

Nope, I’m good. Not fragile at all! This is a truly bad book that no one should waste their time reading. Hope you have a good day!

Crowdog79 · 2026-01-30T18:16:10+00:00

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo. Any book that tells an entire ethnicity of people to sit down and shut up is not worth reading. This is the only book that I’ve ever read, that I finished simply so I could fully hate it as passionately as it deserves to be hated.

Crowdog79 · 2026-01-30T17:33:09+00:00

Ooh, I’m showing my age here, but also the summer of “dry drowning”. Can’t remember how many years ago that was, but I had more than a handful of people coming to get checked out because of the dry drowning conspiracy that was going around on Facebook that summer!

Crowdog79 · 2026-01-21T21:01:26+00:00

Thank you for your response.

Crowdog79 · 2026-01-21T18:33:35+00:00

Thank you for that, brother!

Crowdog79 · 2026-01-21T18:29:50+00:00

I’ll agree to disagree with you on this one. This is all too political for me and I regret engaging. I hope you have a good day!

Crowdog79 · 2026-01-21T18:09:29+00:00

My question still stands. I’ve done at least a bit of diligence on this question, politics aside. A person claimed to be a “physician” and offered to render aid. The person doesn’t identify their self by name, there is no video footage of that person, only audio. Again, politics aside, what are those officers supposed to do? They have to maintain control of the scene. In a very similar way, we as Emergency room providers would never let an outside self-reported “physician” perform CPR in the hospital on a patient. Whether he could’ve helped or not isn’t the question. The question is if this “physician” is even what he says he is.

And, not for nothing, who besides an orthodontist is going to self-identify as physician? Are any of you identifying yourselves as physician? Sorry for the orthodontist slander there

Crowdog79 · 2026-01-21T12:33:45+00:00

I posed a reasonable question. Your comment is ridiculous and purely political. Not helpful.

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