r/emergencymedicine • u/Princessgargoyle ED Attending • 13d ago

Advice Patients interpreting their own portal results

Attending physician new to practicing in a more affluent area. How are you all dealing with patients asking for explanations for each out-of-range lab result that popped up in their patient portal?

I’m finding this aspect of my new site to be very frustrating and time consuming to have to convince the patient why the google interpretation of their isolated eosinophilia or glucose of 100 does not align with my “Great news! Everything looks good!”

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u/tfj92 ED Resident 13d ago

You guys should check out the hematology reddit its out of control with that crap

https://www.reddit.com/r/haematology/s/RZqLDPvmNh

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u/Princessgargoyle ED Attending 13d ago

This is where I should send them. Maybe make a QR code for the link to a community that will answer all of their hematological questions

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u/tfj92 ED Resident 13d ago

We just need to find one where they do chemistry interpretation and we'll be set

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u/metforminforevery1 ED Attending 12d ago

WHY IS MY CHLORIDE LOW??!