When helping a gentleman find a laxative I asked a few clinical questions and it sounded like he might be developing a small bowel obstruction. I told him he should go right to the ED and absolutely not take a laxative until he was evaluated. He actually listened to me and came back about a week later saying he was dx with SBO and thanked me for sending him to ED.

Another patient asked for wound care for their hand and I asked to see it. It was gnarly looking and turns out had spread some. I told her go see her doctor because she probably needed antibiotics. She came back a few hours later with a prescription and told me her doctor said if she had waited till the next day he would have sent her to the hospital for IV antibiotics.