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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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Neurology: how hard could it possibly be?

It can't be that hard to learn neurology from scratch, right?

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Copious vaginal discharge

How exactly can you work at an urgent care without ever encountering a patient with vaginal discharge?

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HIPAA violation

"I just don't feel right using Gmail to communicate private information with the patient." You know what NP Mutembete, we have to agree with you 100% on that one! I have a sneaking suspicion that the United States Department of Health and Human Services does too. It's not like a

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Where would you go from here?

A real fucking doctor, that's where!

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All by myself

Independent practice is all fun and games until you need a physician to bail you out.

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"Looking for anti anxiety med that will not have weight gain property"

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

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Anyone here work in hemotology?

Anyone here have a working spell checker? Usually, specialists tend to respect you more if you know how to spell their specialty correctly (ophthalmology might get a pass here 😜). In any case, the last thing I would do would be to describe a patient with chronic fatigue and drenching sweats

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Asking the wrong question

"Can peptides increase PSA?" Hmm...if you need to ask if something could be a side effect of the medication you're prescribing, you probably shouldn't be prescribing that medication. More concerningly, though, there doesn't seem to be any concern for that other thing that can cause a man's PSA to

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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.

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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 very basic

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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!

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"Fairly stable" on two benzodiazepines

She's already on two benzodiazepines for the past decade, why not add another?

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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?