The Advice Nurse
Many health plans and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) offer an advice nurse telephone service. Advice nurses are registered nurses who have special training to help you decide what to do about symptoms, how to manage minor illnesses, and answer your questions about health problems. A call to the advice nurse can often save you a doctor visit, or help you decide if you need an urgent or routine appointment.
Advise nurses can also help when your doctor diagnoses a health problem or recommends a test or treatment that you don’t fully understand. Sometimes the advice nurse can answer your questions. Other times, he or she may help you come up with questions you can ask your doctor at your next visit.

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