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What's the clinical rule you still stop and look up every single time?

By Michael Van Gelder, PMHNP-BC · August 10, 2026 · Quick Questions & Peer Advice

I was writing the lamotrigine post last week and it got me thinking about the clinical rules we probably know, but still verify before we act.

Not because we never learned them. Because they matter enough that "I'm pretty sure" isn't quite good enough.

Maybe it's when lamotrigine needs to be restarted from scratch. A washout period. An interaction. A monitoring interval. A billing or documentation rule. Something you've looked up 20 times and still check again.

What's yours?

If the same ones keep coming up, I may turn them into a practical reference for the group.

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