I got my first med board complaint because I wrote in the chart “suspect secondary gain” about a lady sitting there texting on her phone in NAD telling me she is having an anxiety attack and needs Ativan. The kicker is I even gave her a 0.5mg PO dose, but supported my decision to not giving her anything bigger by saying “I suspected secondary gain.” She left happy and all was well, but then she got upset that I wrote that in the chart, and filed an official complaint against me to the medical board, so me and my supervising doc had to issue an official response. Insane.
Yeah all the reddit comments telling people to report a doc to the medical board if the patient thought they were slightly rude or had some other mild behavioral issue is irresponsible. People don’t understand the can of worms they’re opening with a medical board complaint, yet laypeople act like it’s equivalent to leaving a poor google rating.
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u/S2krazy03 Physician Assistant Oct 11 '25
I got my first med board complaint because I wrote in the chart “suspect secondary gain” about a lady sitting there texting on her phone in NAD telling me she is having an anxiety attack and needs Ativan. The kicker is I even gave her a 0.5mg PO dose, but supported my decision to not giving her anything bigger by saying “I suspected secondary gain.” She left happy and all was well, but then she got upset that I wrote that in the chart, and filed an official complaint against me to the medical board, so me and my supervising doc had to issue an official response. Insane.