Patients interpreting their own portal results

[u/Princessgargoyle]

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!”

[u/meh817]

“My basophils are high” dawg I don’t even know what a basophil is anymore 😭

[u/surecameraman → u/meh817]

My least favourite leukocyte I have to say

At least with eosinophils I can be like “allergies, innit”. What do you even do with a slightly raised basophil count?

[u/D15c0untMD → u/surecameraman]

But chatgpt said it could be parasites!!!1!1

[u/DonkeyKong694NE1 → u/D15c0untMD]

Or cancer or a connective tissue disorder or …….