By blehhh - 04/04/2009 03:10 - United States

Today, I went to see my gynecologist. She was writing my symptoms up in my chart on her computer. After a little while, I noticed that she had a confused look on her face and was reading something instead. When I took a peek at the computer screen, I saw that she was Googling my symptoms. FML
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AdamAndEve 0

I've been to 2 different doctor's that searched my problem on wikipedia and then printed the page out for me.

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onigiriqueen 0

We can see you were first, Fidelis, you have a little #1 to the left of the date and time. And to the OP, I hear that that's not too uncommon, which is really sad, but true.

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Occam 0

#25 - you better hope your boss doesn't find out you're using PCP cut with Google to do your work for you.

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shmunk 0

was there anything van-like about that gynecologists office? and number 9, youre a dick. just fyi.

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FTA_48 0

Everyone here who doesn't think the majority of doctors do this is ignorant. Before the internet, the same DRs would look up your symptoms in a Merck manual or some other guide. Now they have the internet and diagnosis is faster. I also assume no one here has ever worked WITH doctors before....

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Monty_Python 0

FYL. Get a new one

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blouuu_fml 0

I hate how people think that specialists need to know everything. Maybe she was just looking for other options. It has been said higher up; at least she didn't just make up something. People should stop thinking that all doctors should know everything about health, all teachers should know everything about what they teach, and mechanics should know everything about cars. Everyone can learn, and I'd be glad if my doctor was looking for betters ways to treat my illness. Google is a good search engine, and if she uses good, reliable websites, then what's wrong? How is it worse than looking into one of their gigantic medicine books? @9, if colleges did that, there wouldn't be a lot of doctors/lawyers/teachers/businessmen/whatever in this world. C means that you know enough, according to standards, to do your job correctly. You might not be the best at what you do, but at least you're competent.

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redroses5 0

lol. They should at least come up with a software in which you input the symptoms. It'll look a bit more professional than googling.

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blackdude_fml 0

Atleast she was smart enough to use google and not Yahoo!

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brodizzle 0

The issue here is that if she's Googling without telling the patient, she's asking the patient to give her money for something the patient could do at home, by herself. In a perfect world, she would have said "Google it" and refused her salary for that appointment, since her skills (if she has any) weren't any help.

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