Stop Googling your symptoms. Doctors are sick of it

News.com.au ^ | January 31, 2011 | By staff writers

[Daffynition]

DOCTORS have warned they are seeing too many "cyberchondriacs", those patients who misdiagnose their illnesses after Googling their symptoms.

The Australian Medical Association is concerned the plethora of online medical information is doing more harm than good, with patients increasingly referring to the internet for advice before consulting a trained GP.

[Daffynition]

Cyberchondria. I haz it.

[umgud]

If doctors would talk to their patients, they wouldn’t be so prone to seek info elsewhere. The docs can’t have it both ways.

[cripplecreek]

OK fine. Now I’m gonna google my doctor and see if he likes that any better. LOL

[hennie pennie]

Sour GRAPES!!

The medical establishment is way too trigger happy to use words like, 'hypochondria' and never, "We don't know." IF they were better with correct diagnosis AND cure or alleviation of symptoms, people would not need to diagnose themselves.

[Viking2002]

My wife has this. I hate going to the doctor with her. Depending on what she suddenly became an 'expert' in, I don't know if it's going to be a one face-palm examination, or two.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[Nachoman]

Yeah, its not like doctors ever misdiagnose their patients.

[1raider1]

As it has ever been, the priestly class finds it easier to function with an ignorant laity.

[KeyLargo]

I Googled "cyberchondriacs",.

Yikes. I have it!

[Christian Engineer Mass]

Agree with most comments so far.

A “general practitioner” is an oxymoron. Some good research on the Internet can teach you more about a specific condition than a “general practitioner” knows about it.

[Flying right]

Of course, docs are crazy happy if a patient googles anxiety and then self-diagnoses.

[bigbob]

Under Obamacare, GoogleHealthc are will become everyones primary care provider. To be able to see an actual human physician, you’ll need to be pre-approved and “escalated”.

[Daffynition]

If you are lucky...you have a mere 15 mins w/ your doc to get questions answered. Sometimes you don't even *know* what questions to ask w/out some research first. Being armed is always better than being a dunce/sheep. Often doctors have a *holier-than-thou* attitude. They should be questioned about their diagnosis. FWIW it is incumbent on us to be an informed consumer.

[1raider1]

I’ve always felt that anyone who belittles their life partner on a public forum tells more about themselves than the object of their derision.

[Daffynition]

HAHAHA! Thanks for the laughs!

[Gadsden1st]

I had to stop watching House. Almost killed me.

[Viking2002]

What can I say - she's her own target-rich environment on two legs.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[KeyLargo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep3yF0M_v2k&feature=fvw

[goodwithagun]

Thank God for the Internet. I was able to diagnose myself with a systemic candida infection after my general practitioner and my obgyn told me it was just post partem depression. They pushed pills on me that didn’t work, and then tried to push more pills to help the first pills work better. Sheesh. Also, when I was having trouble getting pregnant I was able to research all info and talk to my obgyn like a pro. Instead of trying for a year and then start the testing, we were able to go straight to the testing because of all the information that I had recorded about myself.

[EggsAckley]

As far as I’m concerned, they can bite me..............they’re getting like lawyers, dragging out every problem and rakeing in the money. I’ve been to four different types of practioners concerning a skin disorder and have not found any relief from any of them.

Then I researched it thoroughly on Google, and decided that what I have is a calcium deficiency. And adding calcium worked, within a week.