Social Media Consults
"Fairly stable" on two benzodiazepines
She's already on two benzodiazepines for the past decade, why not add another?
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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Hold on, let me refer to my info sheets
Why bother with medical school and psychiatry residency when you can just refer to an info sheet and use an app?
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Amenorrhea
No period? Maybe try coming up with a differential first?
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It's all about the money
Why bother with primary care when you can 420 blaze it?
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Who needs medicine when you can just treat everything with an IV?
Nurse practitioner = naturopathic practitioner?
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NP wants to know about treating COVID with experimental drug
At least she's not asking about hydroxychloroquine.
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Internal Medicine NP is confused about insulin
Diabetes is to Internal Medicine as "completely inadequate education" is to midlevels.
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No big deal, it's just poison ivy
Hopefully her friend's foot doesn't fall off before she gets some answers from Facebook.
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"How do you treat this?" Endocrinology 101
I guess they don't teach how the hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis works in online NP school!
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NP consults other Facebook NPs for insight into aortic dissection
It's not like aortic dissection can kill you or anything.
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Guidelines exist for a reason
"How to manage type 2 diabetes" is not something that should be up for debate in 2021.
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NP has run out of ideas, consults Facebook for help
PMH NP needs some help from the hive mind.