Scenarios: when a cited answer helps

These scenarios are real situations from clinical work and study where a fast medical answer is only useful if you can check it: a guideline question in the minute between patients, a night shift with no senior nearby, a patient holding up a headline, a Step 2 CK question you got wrong, a journal club next week, or an interaction flagged on a new prescription. Each page explains the situation, what goes wrong when the answer has no source, how AskMed helps, a step-by-step checklist, the limits and common questions.

AskMed is an AI medical reference for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers. Before it writes an answer, it searches a fixed list of trusted medical sources (journals and databases such as PubMed and the Cochrane Library, guidelines from bodies such as NICE, WHO and CDC, FDA and DailyMed drug labels, and references such as StatPearls), and every claim links to the source it came from. If no usable source turns up, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. It never gives drug doses, and it is for education and reference, not a substitute for clinical judgment.

The scenarios are grouped by who usually meets them, but most apply across roles: a resident preparing for ward rounds and a nurse on a night shift ask the same kind of question, and a GP and a researcher both need to judge a study. Pick the situation closest to yours.