Social Media Consults
ER NP places a STAT Facebook consult for compartment syndrome
Clearly, asking the Facebook peanut gallery for help during a limb-threatening surgical emergency is the most appropriate course of action.
Social Media Consults
Urine trouble: NPs demonstrate a piss-poor understanding of pee
Urine for a real golden treat with this post.
Social Media Consults
New urgent care NP urgently needs some self-awareness
Who wants to take bets on how long this oblivious NP will last?
Physician Assistant
Neurosurgery PA bashes on physicians
Originally posted on Reddit. Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. This morning Iām sitting on the Neurology floor minding my own business when I hear a Neurosurgery PA talking very loudly to a patient about how she does neurosurgery. She goes on to say that she does everything the
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Skits
[VIDEO] A visit to Dr. Karen, DNP: confusing credentials and a diagnosis of bronchitis
Nurse, doctor, or both? Anyway, it's just bronchitis. Nothing that a Z-Pak and steroids won't fix!
News
Skits! Skits! Skits!
Midlevels aren't the only ones capable of making cringey internet videos!
Nurse Practitioner
Urgent care NP sends patient off to the ED to get a cardiac stent
We can feel our troponins rising after reading this tale of sheer midlevel stupidity.
Nurse Practitioner
When an NP gets mad at you for seeing a real doctor
Originally posted on Reddit by u/RandomFlamingoo. Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. Earlier this year I switched my care in my primary care's office from an NP to an actual doctor in the practice, and ever since, whenever the NP or her assistant have seen me, they
Social Media Consults
The NP approach to cancer: the chemotherapy cheat sheet
Why spend three years in a hematology-oncology fellowship when you can just become an NP and ask Facebook for a list of chemo meds?
Nurse Practitioner
Nurse practitioner missed a fatal diagnosis
Nurse practitioner? More like death practitioner.
"I know what they use lidocaine for"
Originally posted on Reddit by u/alliebeth88. Lightly edited for grammar and clarity. Community pharmacist here. My partner at work told me that this happened on my day off and I'm still stunned. An urgent care NP writes for magic mouthwash and Tamiflu for a patient. Magic mouth
Social Media Consults
The Elite NP's unethical misadventures in self-prescribing
Don't you just hate it when you accidentally overdose yourself?