r/emergencymedicine 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 β€œGreat news! Everything looks good!”

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u/dbbo ED Attending 13d ago

This is the EMERGENCY department. The "slightly abnormal department" is located in your PCP'S office

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u/Halome Trauma Team - RN 13d ago

Please tell me you actually say that to trust fund baby Becca and kick her out and dgaf about PG scores πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚