sarasquares

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I have been at the doctors in the past and gone down with my own diagnosis from the net and he has taken my word for it.

ScoobLou

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My previous Manager did. He was searching the net with his symptoms whilst we were in the office one day. He said Lou I'm gonna die. I said don't be so stupid! He was dead within a month due to cancer. He may have been my Manager but we were close and I respected him.

It was very sad and I miss him now over 4 years ago

sarasquares

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OMG i wasnt expecting a reply like that

Clarebabes

I did a search on the internet about my shoulder op and wished I hadn't Gruesome!

Snazy

I have done a bit of exploring and taken my own diagnosis to the doc, strangely usually right on the odd occasion I have done it. lol

The internet is a great tool, but can drive you to insanity if you read and believe everything thats on there. So much contradiction.

sarasquares

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My doctor has used the internet to look something up which i thought was odd but thinking about it, its got to be more accurate than the books they refer to.

pimmo2000

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depends on your definition of diagnosing myself

sarasquares

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I think there is a special clinic for that sort of thing

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

You actually gonna "***" down then this week ?

sarasquares

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Euwww

I have been and gone

pimmo2000

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I thought I saw a snail trail ...

sarasquares

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I have a cold

richie001

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I went my doctor once and she typed my symptoms into about.com

sarasquares

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What did she come up with?

Deep Singh

Yes. A friend of mine had a heart transplant recently and half way through the op the doc couldn't remember the next step. He looked it up on the internet and thankfully all went well.

Thank god for Wikipedia! Personally, I can't see the point of spending decades learning a profession when everything you need to know is on the internet.

Lisawrx

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So did mine once. He was young, and when I said what was happening, he looked it up on the internet. He did however say, it's only really worth doing when you sort of know what you're looking for.

I generally think looking up things on the internet is a bad thing, as you don't have much to go on other than how you feel and alot of people could end up thinking they are not long for this world.A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

We did however help a recent consultant of mine out, by logging on the internet and showing him what had happened to me, in the hope seeing would be better than explaining. He even said that was a first for him.

magepaster

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Yep. Put my symptoms into a search and it turns out my hard drive is buggered

Seriously though I have searched symptoms and then told my GP what I thought was wrong to which he said he would do the diognosis. He came up with the same result and got really grumpy about it. He ended up suggesting that maybe I should look for another doctor if I felt the need to use him to confirm the opinions of -and I quote- "the planet of the geeks".

NotoriousREV

My wife's doctor once used Google to look something up, which appalled the wife no end. It may or may not be coincidence that we're currently taking the same doctor to court for negligence...

pimmo2000

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a cold what ?

RoadPest

Bupa have a very good online service where you diagnose yourself good when you know your leg is just about to drop off.

Leslie

Coupled with the information on the Net I would say that you also need the benefit of a trained person with practical experience to listen to the symptoms, make a few checks of his own, and come up with a diagnosis which should certainly be more reliable than what you work out from the Net.

You could drive yourself crackers working out what you think you might have!

Les

vindaloo

Is it only me that is worried about the lack of a smiley?

The net of a billion lies cannot be the sole source of medical diagnosis, surely?

sarasquares

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Where did i not put one?

Better?

boxst

Like everyone else, I use the internet to try to diagnose things. It is a bit hit and miss really.

What it IS good for is once you have found out what is wrong with you looking at all the various help sites and discussions.

Steve