Ralph-YK
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There's also legit posts that are just out of date, as well as people who have misunderstood things.
All this is why I've tried to avoid using Google search.
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GPs threaten to remove patients who visit ‘Dr Google’ first
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All this is why I've tried to avoid using Google search.
Bubbsie
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Agree GPs need to laugh some times Amigo...but... not to mock their patients... shout at them...or intimidate them...threaten them with removal from their lists without good reason...GPs have a very strict criteria for removing a patient from their list...I doubt Dr Google is one of them...abuse of medical staff is not acceptable...neither is abuse of patients...agree with the point quoted by @Ralph-YK... 'In the Radio programme they made the point that it was better to "debunk" any wrong info people have, rather than throw them off your list.'...is it now recognised that some doctors have been abusing their patients in this way?...if so...that must be something the GMC should be addressing.It isn’t so much Dr. Google because google is just a search engine but the reliability of some of the medical sites. There are some exceptionally good, authoritative and up to date ones out there but some people are likely taking dubious remedy suggestions from snake oil seller sites.
GP’s must get a laugh too at times. My friend was pregnant and overdue and her mother told me she had been taken into hospital to ‘be seduced’. She had no idea why I was laughing!
Copepod
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For clarity, this is the episode first broadcast on evening of Tues 17th Oct 2017. Next broadcast 15:30 on Wed 18th Oct 2017. On demand here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098jm8f
mikeyB
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Dr google is only as good as the questions asked. GIGO. And when Dr Google can take a full history, and carry out examinations, he might be as good as a real doctor. Till then, every swollen neck gland will be Hodgkin’s disease, and every low back pain will be metastatic prostate cancer.
MikeTurin
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And if one is using Dr. Public Library, where could read issues of Science, Nature, or even Lancet and different kinds of books?
By the way I think the access to the library of the medicine department of the univerity is still open to anyone, so if one wants to get a copy of a specialized peer reviewed journa it can...
Of course one ha to measure the difference between Science and TV Sorrisi e Canzoni (that is the Italian equivalent of Radio Times)
By the way I think the access to the library of the medicine department of the univerity is still open to anyone, so if one wants to get a copy of a specialized peer reviewed journa it can...
Of course one ha to measure the difference between Science and TV Sorrisi e Canzoni (that is the Italian equivalent of Radio Times)
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