Social Media Consults
Who needs medicine when you can just treat everything with an IV?
Nurse practitioner = naturopathic practitioner?
Midlevel.WTF
Nurse Practitioner
Meningitis, watered down for midlevels
Diseases don't adjust their severity based on your lack of knowledge about them.
Social Media Consults
NP wants to know about treating COVID with experimental drug
At least she's not asking about hydroxychloroquine.
Social Media Consults
Internal Medicine NP is confused about insulin
Diabetes is to Internal Medicine as "completely inadequate education" is to midlevels.
Social Media Consults
No big deal, it's just poison ivy
Hopefully her friend's foot doesn't fall off before she gets some answers from Facebook.
Nurse Practitioner
Psychiatry NP turns teenager into walking pharmacy
There's not enough time in a day to take all those pills.
Social Media Consults
"How do you treat this?" Endocrinology 101
I guess they don't teach how the hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis works in online NP school!
Social Media Consults
NP consults other Facebook NPs for insight into aortic dissection
It's not like aortic dissection can kill you or anything.
Social Media Consults
Guidelines exist for a reason
"How to manage type 2 diabetes" is not something that should be up for debate in 2021.
News
Washington State wants to reimburse midlevel NPs at the same rate as physicians?!
Medicine is not a participation trophy.
Stories
It happened to my father
An unexplained blood pressure of 89/58 is just "dehydration", according to the NP that took care of this person's father.
Social Media Consults
NP has run out of ideas, consults Facebook for help
PMH NP needs some help from the hive mind.