ROFL. dam she's very smart.

*Gasp!* Get a new gyno pronto! Going to the gynos office isn't a very fun experience to begin with, you don't want to have to keep going back because she misdiagnosed you!

Could a med student, or better yet GP or gyno please post here to calm all of the alarmists? I'm only pre-med, but from what I understand, the brain is not equal to a storage-memory-retrieval system in the same way as a computer - the point of a doctor if they cannot recognize your disease from memory based on the symptoms listed (from the 1000s of different ways a person's body can react to a 1000 different things) is that they are the most capable of taking your symptoms and LEARNING about it in order to clarify what it is (at which point they also do have a basic battery of treatments and drugs they know fairly well). Not everyone on the planet is literate enough to self-diagnose over the internet; in fact about 30% of America falls below what would be considered adequate literacy for day-to-day life. Saying that visiting the doctor is worthless if you could simply Google it is a fallacy - many people are also hypochondriacs, or at the least prone to misdiagnosis moreso than any professional. Googling it in front of the OP was a lack of tact, but unless this gyno has given you other reasons to doubt the legitimacy of their license, or has been otherwise unprofessional, I'm sure they're very capable of assisting you in finding an antibiotic or treatment that can help you along.

Ive been a medical professional for 5 years and am currently working towards my md. that said i can assure the purpose of any for of hire education is not to teach you every piece of information you will need during the course of your career but rather to teach you how to find it quickly and efficiently. you would be much worse off if you had a doctor that decided not to look up your symptoms. allow me to say googling your symptoms yourself isn't a bad idea because you SHOULD be involved in and informed about your health care. far too many people aren't and it always serves to their detriment. that said it is FOLLY too assume that you as a layman can serve as a viable substitute for a trained medical professional. so in conclusion the situation you described in no way suggests that your ob/gyn is in anyway incompetent.

You can't expect everyone to be House. People forget things, even doctors.

wow, sue her for fraud. to cmj0011 above me, i see your point, but shouldn't she have a better source than google? Obviously I'm no expert, but I know my mom (a nurse practitioner) has databases of different drugs and things etc. You'd think there'd be something similar for the gynecology field.

I'm a librarian. I agree that doctors cannot remember every single thing they have learned in medical school, but I would hope that a doctor would have better information-seeking skills than this. Wouldn't somebody working for in the medical field have access to medical books, or at the very least, PubMed? Googling something is fine if you want to find a new pair of shoes or to find a recipe for dinner, but it is VERY SAD that a person whose decisions affect someone else's life is 'GOOGLING IT!". Pathetic. Get a new gyno.

HAHAHAHA I would get a new gyno. #79 is right.

*extremely* common. If you find a doctor that *doesn't* cross-check their knowledge with other resources, you've found a bad doctor. Remember back before the internet, when the doctor would leave the room and go back to their office then return later? They were looking things up in books and consulting with colleagues. Same thing here.

Would you prefer if they just bsed if your sick or not? i'd like it if someone double checked before making a decision