Posted by Neal on May 31, 2009, at 1:10:55
In reply to Re: E-Patient » garnet71, posted by ricker on May 31, 2009, at 0:28:39
ricker-
As to the benefits of the internet, I just figured that my Pdoc had only 20 minutes every two weeks or so to concentrate on my case, and I had several hours to concentrate on it, so why not, it's not an unimportant issue after all.
I went for a short time to a depression/manic depression support group, and I was interested that folks would just put their lives in the hands of a stranger and say, "Cure me." Not that that doesn't work, it's just that I don't have that much trust on this issue. And some people would just take the same meds for years because their doctor said so, and yet they often were not doing the best that could be gotten IMO. Hey, the years are going by, man, and I can't wait that long.
Doctors by now are well aware of the internet. Any disease now has it's own net support groups. The perhaps danger is being too uninformed to understand the raw information that you get on the net, and not understanding the scientific method of testing for the truth of a statement. The answer is to get informed, so I spent years getting better informed, reading a lot of material.
Also, I guess there's a slight danger of becoming a hypochondriac, which should always be resisted if you see it happening in yourself.
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