This is a terrible idea. First of all, you are never certain of anything. Second of all, you would need to charge them for your services, or else you would have committed fraud. If you treat your family for free, why won't you treat others for free? Third, what if you are wrong? Things like strep throat are actually hard to diagnose in some cases, particularly without lab tests, which you won't have over the phone or in your home. What if you gave your family member Stevens-Johnson Syndrome by prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily without knowing their previously undisclosed allergy? Would you be OK with them suing you to cover their considerable expenses? How are you going to chart? If you don't chart and something bad happens, you will lose your license, bingo bango bongo. Imagine working for that long only to lose your license because you wrote the wrong prescription to a family member.
I've been a doctor for more than a decade. I never, ever treat family members, friends, or colleagues. I am friends with many who have the same policy. You will end up knowing hundreds of docs by the time you're done training. Refer your family to one of them. Stay out of it.
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Can you be the doctor of your family members/friends?
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