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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe paradox of on-line self-diagnosing.
Patients will diligently scour the internet for information on whatever symptom seems to be bothering them. And they routinely come up with the most abstruse, arcane, rare diseases imaginable for which they want to be evaluated and treated.
But in all that research, they invariable miss the simple medical admonishments.
Stop smoking.
Don't drink seven Cokes a day.
Don't eat so much.
Get your vaccines.
I guarantee you, you will feel better if you follow these simple easy-to-find-on-the-internet pieces of advice.
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(52,116 posts)Aristus
(66,286 posts)Turbineguy
(37,291 posts)would ask about my medical history (parents health), I would tell them, "my Mother is the reason guys like you drive Porsche's!" She spent the last 61 years of her life at death's door.
Aristus
(66,286 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 30, 2020, 01:42 PM - Edit history (1)
I work in community health, so Porsches are not in my benefits package.
Turbineguy
(37,291 posts)Doctor Samuel Gall, inventor of the gall bladder who specialized in diseases of the rich.
The Clinic I go to has no Porsche's in the parking area either. And they've kept the clinic open late to wait for x-ray results so as to send me home with good news.
Aristus
(66,286 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,598 posts)Doctors are supposed to shut up about that shit and just give me a pill to fix it.
(did I really need that?)
Aristus
(66,286 posts)I get some nasty replies to my medical posts sometimes. People claiming I hate my patients and enjoy seeing them suffer, that kind of thing...
Wounded Bear
(58,598 posts)Aristus
(66,286 posts)demmiblue
(36,823 posts)Also: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."
Aristus
(66,286 posts)Medical providers make the worst patients...
demmiblue
(36,823 posts)People are human.
And there are going to be a shitload of medical providers who will have similar issues due to PTSD.
My heart goes out to all y'all.
Aristus
(66,286 posts)who committed suicide from the stress.
I have it relatively easy by comparison.
Testing seven patients yesterday for COVID-19 was the busiest it's been for me since this started.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)can I drink seven rum and cokes?
Aristus
(66,286 posts)Because it will make ruining your health a lot more fun...
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)kairos12
(12,842 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,586 posts)At least it does mine, so I don't go there any more. I've diagnosed myself with far too many scary diseases - even though I don't smoke, overeat or drink Coke, and I always get my vaccinations. This started when I was a kid and read my mom's nursing school textbooks, whereupon I became certain I had various ailments including but not limited to polio, dengue fever, many forms of cancer, kwakiorshor and beri-beri - until I was told not to be ridiculous; I was just fine and I should put the books away and go play outside. Since those old days the Internet has made hypochondria kind of an indoor sport.