Social Media Consults
There is a fracture, I need to fix it
I've got a bone to pick with anyone who thinks they can jump straight from orthopedics to family medicine.
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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Too many choices, I can't decide!
So many flavors, gotta try them all!
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Nurse practitioner wonders if pulmonary congestion could be bronchitis
"But, Your Honor, everyone I asked on Facebook said it wasn't concerning!"
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Midlevel just doesn't feeling like doing that right now
Ain't nobody got time for patient care!
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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.
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"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.
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File not found
Primary care medicine and oupatient care cannot be distilled into a "file".
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"Could it be MRSA?"
Yep, it's MRSA. Definitely MRSA.
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Mom deserves an answer from an obstetrician, not a Facebook group
Some NPs just have no qualms when it comes to asking for medical advice in specialty areas way above their pay grade, like OB/GYN. To be honest, I wouldn't even be trusting a non-OB/GYN physician to get into topics like amniotic fluid volume. Dredging up my
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NSAIDs before surgery, sure why not?
NSAIDs before surgery, what could possibly go wrong?
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Aren't you supposed to learn these things in school?
Does anyone have good apps or textbooks that will tell me how to do my job?
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Nurse practitioner needs help differentiating anemia
Medical students are expected to understand basic medicine before graduating. Not so for midlevels!