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dryingsocks t1_j4zpulu wrote

Reply to comment by L0cked4fun in Is there any difference in efficacy when a vaccine is administered somewhere other than the upper arm (e.g. on the foot)? by MercurioLeCher

you don't get to sit down for your shots? sorry that happened to you. I usually assume doctors know their anatomy

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ceelo71 t1_j504e5m wrote

Honestly doctors don’t give shots. Nurses are much better trained and I would trust them over a doctor

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LiquidPizza t1_j507jdq wrote

Doctors are perfectly capable of giving an intramuscular injection. It doesn't take longer than an hour to learn how to administer them and even that is being generous.

But you're definitely correct in that it does not happen often that doctors give shots especially in a hospital setting.

EDIT: for intravenous injections I would agree with you as nurses (depending on which specialty) are a lot more experienced and do this much more regularly than doctors.

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ceelo71 t1_j50ahuf wrote

Agreed, physicians are definitely capable of giving an IM shot, but rarely do. This may have been a thing a long time ago, but is not done (at least in the US) currently. Source - have been a practicing physician for twenty years.

It’s like starting an IV - the only docs that are good at that are anesthesiologists. They even know how to set up the pumps, mix IV meds, etc. if someone were crashing and needed an IV and infusion started, and I was the only one there to do it, the prognosis would be poor.

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dryingsocks t1_j50u81l wrote

I don't doubt that nurses could do it, but here in Germany vaccinations are administered by doctors, even during the pandemic. Never got one by anyone else

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ceelo71 t1_j5157gy wrote

That’s an interesting difference in practice. If a patient needs an IV bolus of a medication, does the physician also do that or is it delegated to a nurse?

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L0cked4fun t1_j4zq0lu wrote

We sat, I'm 6'3, they were less that 5' so it was still an odd lean. It was a pharmacy tech instead of a doc. Some areas trained them for vaccines due to the sudden demand.

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dryingsocks t1_j4zq6by wrote

p sure it had to be a doctor here. I'm pretty tall (almost 2m) the person giving the injection always stood during my jabs

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becauseTexas t1_j508u7l wrote

The pharmacy tech giving shots is a new thing spurred on by COVID. Before then it was always the pharmacist.

Am pharmacist

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Chasman1965 t1_j50c5sx wrote

Not sure who gave me my flu shots or shingles shots pre-Covid. I presumed a pharm tech, but it may have been the pharmacist.

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Piratedan200 t1_j5190eq wrote

Every time I've gotten a shot at a pharmacy, it's been the pharmacist that administered it. I didn't think techs were allowed to.

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