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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PA consults Facebook for help treating her patient's pulmonary embolism

We're going to need a thrombectomy after reading this post.

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PMHNP is going to lose it if her Facebook post ends up on one of those "anti-NP" websites

Surprise: It did.

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Elite NP would like us to look at the picture and share our thoughts

Over and over again, these sorts of idiotic Facebook consults demonstrate that the education of nurse practitioners, or lack thereof, is akin to a house built on sand - time is no substitute for the comprehensive medical knowledge, training, and experience of physicians.

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Nurse practitioner wonders why she can't prescribe controlled substances to her mom

The DEA is not going to be happy about this.

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Idiot NP can't make the diagnosis when it's staring her in the face

This picture is worth nowhere near a thousand words.

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Nurse practitioner needs to know "what the numbers mean"

In our medical opinion, the numbers mean that you are very stupid and that you shouldn't be allowed near patients anymore.

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Clueless NP can't read her patient's EKG, so she posts it on Facebook

Hey, we know a few "cardio people". They're called "cardiologists".

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"All I know about skin is it comes in layers"

With his impressive knowledge of skin anatomy, we hope this NP doesn't develop a sudden "passion" for aesthetics.

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Puzzled nurse practitioner consults Facebook for a patient with critical hyperkalemia

It's anyone's guess whether the patient in question is dead or alive.

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Insubordinate NP student goes behind cardiologist's back, sends patient to ER instead of home

We apologize in advance if you go into supraventricular tachycardia while reading this article.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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"Fairly new" PMHNP wants to know if her "scary med changes" are OK

Narrator: This is *not* OK.

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Nurse practitioner doesn't know how to prescribe medications

This midlevel needs a prescription for medical school!

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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"!

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PMHNP attempts to second-guess psychiatrist, fails miserably

Clueless midlevels need to stay in their lane.

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Titrate insulin to Facebook PRN

Consulting Facebook for help with titrating your patients' insulin - what could possibly go wrong?

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"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 of the latter from "doctorally-prepared" PMHNP

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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" even though "it all looks

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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

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Elite NP performs an elite diagnostic workup

Can anyone help this elite midlevel with her patient's clinical conundrum?

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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.