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Stop Googling your symptoms. Doctors are sick of it
News.com.au ^
| January 31, 2011
| By staff writers
Posted on 01/31/2011 3:42:05 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: cyberchondriacs
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Cyberchondria. I haz it.
To: Daffynition
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.
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posted on
01/31/2011 3:44:31 PM PST
by
umgud
To: Daffynition
OK fine. Now I’m gonna google my doctor and see if he likes that any better. LOL
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posted on
01/31/2011 3:45:00 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: All
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.
To: Daffynition
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."
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posted on
01/31/2011 3:47:11 PM PST
by
Viking2002
('Let his days be few; and let another take his office.' - Psalms 109:8)
To: Daffynition
Yeah, its not like doctors ever misdiagnose their patients.
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posted on
01/31/2011 3:47:36 PM PST
by
Nachoman
(Wisdom is learned, cynicism is earned.)
To: Daffynition
As it has ever been, the priestly class finds it easier to function with an ignorant laity.
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posted on
01/31/2011 3:48:08 PM PST
by
1raider1
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To: Daffynition
I Googled "cyberchondriacs",.
Yikes. I have it!
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posted on
01/31/2011 3:50:20 PM PST
by
KeyLargo
To: Daffynition
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.
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posted on
01/31/2011 3:50:39 PM PST
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
To: Daffynition
Of course, docs are crazy happy if a patient googles anxiety and then self-diagnoses.
To: Daffynition
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”.
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posted on
01/31/2011 3:52:26 PM PST
by
bigbob
To: umgud
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.
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posted on
01/31/2011 3:52:45 PM PST
by
Daffynition
( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
To: Viking2002
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.
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posted on
01/31/2011 3:53:07 PM PST
by
1raider1
To: KeyLargo
HAHAHA! Thanks for the laughs!
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posted on
01/31/2011 3:54:18 PM PST
by
Daffynition
( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
To: Daffynition
I had to stop watching House. Almost killed me.
To: 1raider1
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."
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posted on
01/31/2011 3:59:30 PM PST
by
Viking2002
('Let his days be few; and let another take his office.' - Psalms 109:8)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
01/31/2011 4:01:06 PM PST
by
KeyLargo
To: Daffynition
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.
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posted on
01/31/2011 4:02:17 PM PST
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: Daffynition
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.
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posted on
01/31/2011 4:03:44 PM PST
by
EggsAckley
( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply ! !)
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