Nurse Practitioner
The pot calling the kettle black - NP social media edition
Maybe you wouldn't share pictures of your vaginal issues and rashes online. But your fellow midlevel NP colleagues seem to have no qualms about doing so!
Social Media Consults
Examples of midlevels inappropriately asking for medical advice on social media when instead, they should be formally consulting a physician or even sending the patient to the ED. Patients are perfectly capable of posting to Facebook by themselves, you know?
Social Media Consults
Women's Health NP is "at a lost" on urinalysis and cultures
If you have no idea how to interpret a female patient's urinalysis or urine culture and decide whether or not she needs treatment, you have no business working in Women's Health.
Social Media Consults
Cut out the middleman and consult Facebook yourself!
If you really need all the help you can get, then maybe you should see a residency-trained, board-certified physician.
Social Media Consults
"I am confused, what should I dx the patient with?"
We're confused by the fact that midlevels like these are allowed near real patients.
Social Media Consults
"Fairly new" PMHNP wants to know if her "scary med changes" are OK
Narrator: This is *not* OK.
Social Media Consults
Nurse practitioner doesn't know how to prescribe medications
This midlevel needs a prescription for medical school!
Social Media Consults
A rare case of "Perry orbital cellulitis"
No worries, we can just refer the patient to a "red eye" optometrist with whom we have an "informal arrangement"!
Social Media Consults
PMHNP attempts to second-guess psychiatrist, fails miserably
Clueless midlevels need to stay in their lane.
Social Media Consults
Titrate insulin to Facebook PRN
Consulting Facebook for help with titrating your patients' insulin - what could possibly go wrong?
Social Media Consults
"She need a get off the couch med"
Perhaps in response to our revelatory exposés of idiotic midlevel social media consults, we've noticed a substantial uptick in the number of aforementioned social media consults being nebulously reframed as "case studies" or "asking for a friend"-type questions. Here, we have an example
Social Media Consults
It all looks foreign to me!
On today's episode of "Things you should have learned in school before touching real patients", we have this gem from newly minted family NP Grace Metzger working in primary care in Andrews, NC through Erlanger Health System. Apparently, NP Grace sees "a bunch of derm&
Social Media Consults
PMHNP has "zero experience treating ADHD"
Can you imagine an attending psychiatrist making it through medical school, board exams, and psychiatry residency without knowing how to treat ADHD? Fucking hell, even a competent internist, family physician, or pediatrician could at least competently initiate treatment for ADHD. Imagine going to a dealership and buying a car, only