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18th February 2012

TIME article: "When the Patient is a Googler" →

cranquis:

There’s so much information (as well as misinformation) in medicine — and, yes, a lot of it can be Googled — that one major responsibility of an expert is to know what to ignore.

Great article about an orthopedist’s over-informed patient, and the way that doctors have to adjust their communication styles for “Googlers”.

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    This is all too true. Google and sites like WebMD, while somewhat informative, are the bane of many healthcare...
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  11. madladyrandom said: Nurses make good patients because they are used to trusting doctors? Er, the nurses I’ve known over the years give me the impression that it might be more accurate to say they’re used to listening to doctors, and not arguing with them overmuch.
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    Nightmare patient
  14. elizaii said: I feel guilty because I google too and don’t know what to ignore, haha
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