I listen to my doctors, I write down everything they say and then I do my own research later.
I have a relatively rare spinal condition and I've only seen 2 out of about a dozen doctors who knew what it was before they googled it and one of those gave me figures I'd already seen in a research paper I'd read and the other had less knowledge about my condition than I did.
I don't blame them since there are literally thousands of medical conditions and a lot of them fall on the long tail in terms of what they see on a day to day basis.
I'm not afraid of disagreeing with my doctors anymore though since often I know as much about my condition as they do.
It would be better if they didn't affect an air of omniscience sometimes though.
The only reason they found the condition at all was because I had an A&E (ER) Doc tell me to go back to the GP and demand an MRI on my spine, he was a good doc, he knew something wasn't right.
I have a relatively rare spinal condition and I've only seen 2 out of about a dozen doctors who knew what it was before they googled it and one of those gave me figures I'd already seen in a research paper I'd read and the other had less knowledge about my condition than I did.
I don't blame them since there are literally thousands of medical conditions and a lot of them fall on the long tail in terms of what they see on a day to day basis.
I'm not afraid of disagreeing with my doctors anymore though since often I know as much about my condition as they do.
It would be better if they didn't affect an air of omniscience sometimes though.
The only reason they found the condition at all was because I had an A&E (ER) Doc tell me to go back to the GP and demand an MRI on my spine, he was a good doc, he knew something wasn't right.