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/Special-Box-1400]

You need to go identify the ROOT cause of the illness that will explain all there minor lab abnormalities and the secret to a healthy life they have been missing, Chiropractor and Naturopathic/ functional doctors do a much better job than Emergency medicine doctors at finding the ROOT cause of a patient's illness.

[u/lavender_poppy → u/Special-Box-1400]

This is sarcasm right?