Social Media Consults
Too many choices, I can't decide!
So many flavors, gotta try them all!
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Social Media Consults
Nurse practitioner wonders if pulmonary congestion could be bronchitis
"But, Your Honor, everyone I asked on Facebook said it wasn't concerning!"
Nurse Practitioner
The invisible hand of the free market
The free market giveth, and the free market taketh away.
Nurse Practitioner
Putting the "nurse" in nurse practitioner
Nurse practitioner: nursing experience sold separately.
Social Media Consults
Midlevel just doesn't feeling like doing that right now
Ain't nobody got time for patient care!
Physician Assistant
University of Lynchburg calls PA a "cardiology fellow"
There's only one cardiologist here, and it's the guy with an MD.
Social Media Consults
Hanging in the balance: When a Facebook consult becomes a matter of life and death
No big deal, just send the kid home with a popsicle and call it a day. It's not like anything bad could happen.
Nurse Practitioner
Past President of AANP knows current NPs are not competent, but is proud to have gotten them FPA in the VA system
This is the "heart of a nurse" they speak of: yeah, our students are just "warm bodies", but I got them FPA! Talking about being ethically bankrupt. It isn't just us taking notice - other NPs are appalled too: These NPs know their trainees
Social Media Consults
"I feel like school did not prepare me for this very well"
Imagine working in a walk-in clinic while being clueless about antibiotics. Unimaginable for a doctor, but par for the course for midlevels.
Social Media Consults
File not found
Primary care medicine and oupatient care cannot be distilled into a "file".
News
Indiana Senate Bill No. 366
https://custom.statenet.com/public/resources.cgi?id=ID:bill:IN2021000S366&ciq=ncsl&client_md=d097407f1d2895552dabe22fda844dee&mode=current_text What a disgusting attempt at a power grab by physician assistants in Indiana. This bill creates a "physician assistant licensing board" and transfers authority for PA
Social Media Consults
"Could it be MRSA?"
Yep, it's MRSA. Definitely MRSA.