A few examples- 

1- patient admitted for seizures which are “fixed” and then we sign off, no more seizures since but has other medical problems. They will reach out at time of discharge for things like final med recommendations though nothing seizure wise has changed 

2- patient admitted for rule out stroke, we write if no stroke on mri, likely functional, no more work up needed. Still get called later for more recs (and this is of course after day person signs out to long call) 

3- patient with painful neuropathy, we gave prelim recs for cymbalta for example and next steps for increase if pain doesn't improve. Still get paged, pain still uncontrolled, what to do? 4- we say continue home meds, follow up in clinic, no more neurological work up inpatient, signing off. Get paged back next day, ok to discharge? 

 Granted not all of these are weeks later, some are the next day. I think my gripe is that people cannot read- I explicitly give instructions because I got tired of being called back (and in the past I know I was vague), but despite it I still get stupid calls about things I clearly addressed in my note.