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Drs who use google? Should i be annoyed ?

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Thought id share something thats bugging me the last visits to the drs. Ended up getting drop foot on the right foot permanetely. Wasnt sure why so did the intelligent thing and ignored it for a month before seeing dr ( wanted to make sure i wasnt doin more dmg using it. ).

First dr. Oh never heard of that. Google. Hilariously i see a article on ufc and it occuring. She reads it. Oh it might be something to do with the nerve... thanks dr google.

Month later different dr. Proceeds to google drop foot same discussion.

Left me kind of bemused. I mean whats the point if literally their opinion is direct from google......

Anyhow. No treatment plan or anything like that. Literally two appointments to read the first suggestion on google.....

Not overly fussed. Its just my funky brain im assuming ( stroke seizure etc ) and that legs already got a reconsyructed knee and no nerves on the bottom of my foot so. Getting a slight bit of strength back 3 months in so im winning i think.

Not sure how to take it hah
 
same thing happened to me nearly 2 years ago. I was just talking about this with colleagues. I could have done the same thing
 
Your previous doctors were prob doing the same thing but not in front of you

Glorified WebMD puppets
 
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This is what these idiots are doing while you're waiting in the exam room and their assistant is running the opening act of the bullshit show. They are trained to waste just enough of your "appointment" and then run through appx. a 2 minute vague surface explanation, hoping (not really, they don't care) you're stupid enough to not know they just ran the same google search you've already done.

If a doctor had the balls to do this right in front of me I'd close their computer and chew their ass the fuck out. You can't let these clowns walk on you. Go find a real doctor, I know it's not easy these days. Took my about 4 years to find a GP who is worth more than the stone it would take to sink them to the bottom of a river.
 
Anewt said:
Thought id share something thats bugging me the last visits to the drs. Ended up getting drop foot on the right foot permanetely. Wasnt sure why so did the intelligent thing and ignored it for a month before seeing dr ( wanted to make sure i wasnt doin more dmg using it. ).

First dr. Oh never heard of that. Google. Hilariously i see a article on ufc and it occuring. She reads it. Oh it might be something to do with the nerve... thanks dr google.

Month later different dr. Proceeds to google drop foot same discussion.

Left me kind of bemused. I mean whats the point if literally their opinion is direct from google......

Anyhow. No treatment plan or anything like that. Literally two appointments to read the first suggestion on google.....

Not overly fussed. Its just my funky brain im assuming ( stroke seizure etc ) and that legs already got a reconsyructed knee and no nerves on the bottom of my foot so. Getting a slight bit of strength back 3 months in so im winning i think.

Not sure how to take it hah
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Just be glad they didn't fully rely on WebMD. Otherwise your drop foot will be diagnosed as a symptom of super COVID AIDS
 
At this moment in time,

AI is like the news. You get a different answer with whichever product you are using.
 
Had it just last week, dude was mid 20s, he googled post bronchial wheeze and how to manage it. I already did that
 
Weird, my doctor didn't know the specifics of the thing that I went in for so he looked it up, but used a specialist medical database, last time I went in. I'd be really pissed if I went in there and he just googled it, given what they charge...
 
Contempt said:
Weird, my doctor didn't know the specifics of the thing that I went in for so he looked it up, but used a specialist medical database, last time I went in. I'd be really pissed if I went in there and he just googled it, given what they charge...
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Yeah. It just wasnt particulary reassuring
 
To be fair, theres absolutely no way they can remember every obscure ailment ever discovered. And theres a good chance that Google is a far more powerful seach option than their medical option. It gets you out of there faster. But if you knew there was no special treatment needed, why did you go to one doctor, let alone two?
 
Anewt said:
Thought id share something thats bugging me the last visits to the drs. Ended up getting drop foot on the right foot permanetely. Wasnt sure why so did the intelligent thing and ignored it for a month before seeing dr ( wanted to make sure i wasnt doin more dmg using it. ).

First dr. Oh never heard of that. Google. Hilariously i see a article on ufc and it occuring. She reads it. Oh it might be something to do with the nerve... thanks dr google.

Month later different dr. Proceeds to google drop foot same discussion.

Left me kind of bemused. I mean whats the point if literally their opinion is direct from google......

Anyhow. No treatment plan or anything like that. Literally two appointments to read the first suggestion on google.....

Not overly fussed. Its just my funky brain im assuming ( stroke seizure etc ) and that legs already got a reconsyructed knee and no nerves on the bottom of my foot so. Getting a slight bit of strength back 3 months in so im winning i think.

Not sure how to take it hah
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You are a woman with long covid and you are welcomed 🙏🏿
 
I'll play devil's advocate. When a Dr google's medical issues, they're assessing what they read through the filter of their medical knowledge and medical understanding. So their bullshit detector should be better than the average person's. It could also be to jog their memory.
I also prefer a Dr who is willing to look things up, listen to the patient's experience/input and admit they don't know everything over one who acts like a know-it-all, since the latter is worse for patient outcomes and shows a lack of humility.

Most GPs in the UK know jack-all about musculoskeletal issues, unless they happen to have a personal interest in the area. They don't know anything beyond "knee pain" if you have knee pain - physios know way more. I went to a physio referred by a Dr and they looked at the Dr's notes and it was literally as vague as "knee pain", which the physio said was useless. I also had a GP who had never heard of stress fractures and laughed at the idea that people can have them and still be able to walk (clearly never heard of David Goggins or read any online material about it).
 
mjmj said:
To be fair, theres absolutely no way they can remember every obscure ailment ever discovered. And theres a good chance that Google is a far more powerful seach option than their medical option. It gets you out of there faster. But if you knew there was no special treatment needed, why did you go to one doctor, let alone two?
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Yeah, I think it was Doctor Mike on YouTube who I heard mention that Doctors have to look things up sometimes, makes sense. Additionally, like any profession, there's a bell curve, no matter how much schooling is involved.
 
Anewt said:
Thought id share something thats bugging me the last visits to the drs. Ended up getting drop foot on the right foot permanetely. Wasnt sure why so did the intelligent thing and ignored it for a month before seeing dr ( wanted to make sure i wasnt doin more dmg using it. ).

First dr. Oh never heard of that. Google. Hilariously i see a article on ufc and it occuring. She reads it. Oh it might be something to do with the nerve... thanks dr google.

Month later different dr. Proceeds to google drop foot same discussion.

Left me kind of bemused. I mean whats the point if literally their opinion is direct from google......

Anyhow. No treatment plan or anything like that. Literally two appointments to read the first suggestion on google.....

Not overly fussed. Its just my funky brain im assuming ( stroke seizure etc ) and that legs already got a reconsyructed knee and no nerves on the bottom of my foot so. Getting a slight bit of strength back 3 months in so im winning i think.

Not sure how to take it hah
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Sorry about your foot but after the first fuck up, why didn't you go to a podiatrist?
 
Not annoyed, but concerned. When the doctor is Web MD-ing, it's time to see another doctor.
 
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