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Originally Posted by Bluepete
I have been at Hope Hospital with seriously injured drivers when the Doctor Googles the symptoms for a course of action!
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I'll let you into a little secret Pete, as long as you promise not to tell everyone... My Mrs is a GP and she occasionally gets a patient with some unusual symptoms that might fall into various diagnosis. She tells them she'll have to run a couple of tests and asks them to take a seat in the waiting room. She then goes on the Doctors Net which is like a big doctors chat room/forum and posts up the symptoms and her thoughts. She's guaranteed within 30 minutes (during which she'll have seen a couple of other patients) to have several replies, often from retired consultants and such like, with all kinds of useful advice. Never let her down yet! Medicine is a complicated world and definitely not an exact science, it just cuts down on the "tried that, what shall we do next" syndrome so often found in medicine.
So next time your doctor tells you to take a seat be worried...