Social Media Consults
Elite NP performs an elite diagnostic workup
Can anyone help this elite midlevel with her patient's clinical conundrum?
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?
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It's called "going to medical school"
Some skills are so basic and fundamental to the practice of medicine that it would be literally impossible for a medical student to graduate from medical school without possessing them. Needless to say, one of these skills is learning how to interpret basic labs such as a CBC and BMP/
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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.
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Urine trouble: NPs demonstrate a piss-poor understanding of pee
Urine for a real golden treat with this post.
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New urgent care NP urgently needs some self-awareness
Who wants to take bets on how long this oblivious NP will last?
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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?
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The Elite NP's unethical misadventures in self-prescribing
Don't you just hate it when you accidentally overdose yourself?
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Strep throat antibiotic roulette
We developed antibiotic-induced Clostridium difficile infection after reading this post.
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Very fundamental, indeed
We're going to need some IV hydralazine after reading this.
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The happy dance of ignorance
When lying in the ICU with a big, fat, pulmonary embolism (or any other life-threatening and potentially hemodynamically unstable medical condition), presumably you would want the individual with the highest level of medical knowledge and training caring for you, e.g. a board-certified physician with additional subspecialty fellowship training in
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Asymptomatic UTI, Symptomatic Stupidity
Every time we come across a midlevel social media consult, we sacrifice several brain cells, and this post in the "Nurse Practitioner Newbies" Facebook group is no exception. "What is prescribed for 20 y.o. pregnant woman asymptomatic UTI?" The complete lack of proper English grammar
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Brilliant NP shares her scientific hypothesis on COVID-19 bioweapon research
Gain of function? More like loss of brain function.