i guess shes never heard of webmd.com

Agree with #12 and #76. Doctors don't know everything. Sometimes they just act like they do so that patients won't freak out or think they're incompetent.

This happened to a friend of mine...his doctor looked on WIKIPEDIA.

I don't think it's that bad. I work with computers and people come to me with their problems - it's the same deal. You're troubleshooting an issue based on what people tell you, or what symptoms you see. Based on what you have, sometimes you have a general idea of what's going on, and sometimes you have some diagnoses - but sometimes you have to look up some information you know but can't remember, and additionally, there are times you get something so uncommon it just feels like a joke. Confused look was probably her trying to make something of all the symptoms - many times, I've had a lot of information, but there's something out of place, and it's throwing the whole diagnosis out of whack because it just doesn't fit. I've used google in these cases before. Google has a nice little habit of popping up the most relevant pages first - so if she was googling symptoms, she very well could have found reputable information (especially if she used medical terms). She could have been using Google Scholar. You never know. Best of luck to the OP, though - hope everything turned out okay for you.

I don't think it's that bad. I work with computers and people come to me with their problems - it's the same deal. You're troubleshooting an issue based on what people tell you, or what symptoms you see. Based on what you have, sometimes you have a general idea of what's going on, and sometimes you have some diagnoses - but sometimes you have to look up some information you know but can't remember, and additionally, there are times you get something so uncommon it just feels like a joke. Confused look was probably her trying to make something of all the symptoms - many times, I've had a lot of information, but there's something out of place, and it's throwing the whole diagnosis out of whack because it just doesn't fit. I've used google in these cases before. Google has a nice little habit of popping up the most relevant pages first - so if she was googling symptoms, she very well could have found reputable information (especially if she used medical terms). She could have been using Google Scholar. You never know. Best of luck to the OP, though - hope everything turned out okay for you.

Well, it is discerning to see a doctor do that, but with all of today's diseases and stuff. It's A LOT to memorize and people forget things as they grow older, so I can't really blame them.

At least they weren't playing sudoku.

K no one wants to read a whole phucking paragraph of un-needed facts. Anyways. That sucks xD

So you got to pay your doctor to do a google search. Awesome.

I have had a doctor do that to me too! We don't need doctors anymore... we have google!