Social Media Consults
CBC, Hgb, MCV, it's all gibberish to me!
Anyone who can't even read a CBC shouldn't be allowed anywhere near live patients.
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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The mythical DEA Schedule I license
Your heroin is ready for pickup at the pharmacy.
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Any ortho NPs here?
This is the kind of basic medical knowledge that gets beat into young doctors' brains with the pointy part of the tibial tuberosity.
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NP is perplexed by patient's question
If anyone knows the answer, please let Shelly know!
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"I was taught in school to never refer to a doctor"
And we were taught in medical school to always put the patient first.
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Let's put it to a vote
Asking the Facebook peanut gallery to vote on your patient's next medication is not an appropriate way to practice medicine.
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NP has no clue about imaging results, posts entire radiology read online for help
Can anyone interpret the interpretation?
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Make Algorithms Great Again
Why bother learning medicine when there's an easy algorithm for everything?
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NP just feels like insulin shouldn't be started yet
Starting a patient like this on metformin is like pissing into the wind.
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Don't order lab tests that you don't know how to interpret
Your understanding of this result...is wrong.
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When to start or stop the medications?
Is this the kind of person you would want taking care of an elderly family member?
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Tests, tests, and more tests
Shotgunning labs is not an acceptable substitute for clinical acumen and an understanding of pathophysiology.