> Patient doesn't respect doctor's/pharmacist's guidelines. This is not at all restricted to antibiotics. I still treasure the memory of listening to a cardiol

> Patient doesn't respect doctor's/pharmacist's guidelines. This is not at all restricted to antibiotics. I still treasure the memory of listening to a cardiologist ream out a patient over the phone on either Christmas or New Year's Eve (I was waiting for him to leave so I could take the servers down). Said patient hadn't been seen in the office in 6+ months, had gotten things prescribed by other docs in the interim, and had decided to stop taking some of what had been prescribed effectively self-medicating. The basic message being passed to him was "You're an idiot, you're going to die, if you have problems over this long holiday weekend call the doc who saw you most recently or get to the ER, did I mention idiocy and death?, we haven't seen you in months and didn't prescribe what you're doing and are not responsible for your stupidity, I'm documenting this in your chart." IIRC, in this case the patient had kept taking a diuretic that had a side effect of potassium elimination but had decided to stop taking the potassium supplements needed to counter that.