 Here's what happens when a nurse calls me and says, hey, your patient wants to leave against medical advice. If somebody is so sick that you're concerned that they're gonna leave the hospital and something bad may happen, then it's important for you to test what we call competency. So if somebody had a really nasty infection, maybe their blood pressure was low, they're telling me, I just wanna go home doc, I'm gonna leave, okay, you can't stop me. After this point, when you've deemed that a patient is competent, it's pretty easy. You give them a form that they sign and you document your entire conversation, of what you explain to that patient, and on the flip side, if a patient is deemed not competent, that's when you usually will call the psychiatry team or the security team to make sure the patient is not going to try to do something that harms way, because they clearly don't understand well enough of what they have going on, and that's not safe to go home. So again, by no means the most enjoyable part of being a doctor, but it does happen, I would say on a monthly basis, maybe one or two times for some of my patients. Some of them I know are already gonna leave against medical advice, because they've done it before, but again, don't take it as a personal defeat. If you want more insight in the life as a full-time doctor, make sure you hit that like, subscribe, and follow to get more content just like this one.