Maybe, but a Facebook article posted by some random person with no knowledge or credibility in the matter does.... ( Obviously Im being sarcástic here )

If doctors were doing their jobs properly we wouldn't need to use google. Anxiety should not be your first diagnosis for any woman before you do any diagnostic testing.

right, but my living in this body for 43 years trumps you not listening to me when I say this is wrong

40 years of medical practice should provide the experience to tell baloney from facts but the world is changing really fast. Its impossible for any doctor to stay up to date on new information. IBM has an AI whose sole function is to read the 5000 new medical articles that are published every single day and send summary alerts to doctors who should check out the good ones. One needs to be open possibly being wrong and not dismissing something crazy just out of hand. If some nut comes in asking for horse tranquilizers for COVID, have the courtesy to check it out to see if there is any real science behind it before rejecting it outright. There could be some new things you just haven't had time to read about yet. You can then have a conversation with someone who realizes you respect them and keep them from dying by explaining what those pills really do. Too many conspiracy people get that way because they feel they are rejected as a person when you reject their suggestion. Taking the time to explain a misunderstanding can alleviate that and a doctor needs to use their 40 years to get through to them.

That may be true, but you still need to listen to your patients as they are the experts on themselves and are often forced to google because they can't get an appointment.

It really depends what the medical issue is. Doctors are great with some things but really not with many - anything rare, multi-system or that primarily impacts women they're often useless. Google and patient support communities got me through things that no doctor did. The better medical professionals (ie no ego) are very open to learning from patient experience. (I'm definitely talking about lived experience and community knowledge, not some person with no experience who feels they can comment on something after ten minutes on Google).

This is hit and miss. The medical industry is very bias. And doctors go out of their way to discredit what you think or know about your own health. If you try to educate yourself about your own symptoms the doctor will often take it as a challenge to prove you wrong. It's not usually about helping you, or even using their training, they are specifically bothered by the fact that you think you know anything without them. They also discredit woman and chronic pain in general, not taking their health seriously. When your at a loss with doctors your whole life you bet that person is probably going to do their best with google to try to help themselves. It took me 9 doctors in probably about 4 years to get properly diagnosed with chronic staff infections. The first 8 doctors where happy putting me on antibiotics through most of my childhood, I was nearly an adult by the time the 9th doctor finally labeled what was happening and gave me a simple cream for my reoccurring problem.

What about my watching a YouTube video of a guy ranting in a pick up truck?

But it’s not called “doing”, it’s called “practicing”!

aw, but why not? seriously, history has shown that anyone can make a mistake. being knowledgeable is always n ur best i terest.

Again - looking at you Jenny McCarthy.

Literally some people will believe a mtf 5 minute YouTube rant bout vaccines with no credibility over years of medical knowledge with tons of reasearch

Watching Free Speech TV. All kinds of groups would get on there. There was a more liberal discussion on there. Here was a sociologist with a PhD, all kinds of publications, & had led many studies on the subject. He had done a great analysis & came up with a solution. Yes, finally someone is smart. Their next contestant on the subject was the typical mid-western housewife. She had no job outside the home, no travel, no real life experiences. But she had been educated by blogs & social media. She spoke much more in layman's terms & down to earth even though she was clueless. Finally the third one to speak was dressed up like a professor & had that whole nutty professor look. He spoke loud & fast. Lots of charts & graphs. He was full of conspiracy theories about secret govt cabals to UFOs. They did a telephone poll of who was the best one who presented the best solution. Guess who folks thought was the best. The crazy dude.

That only counts if professionals actually keep themself up to date and dont blindly trust whatever they read just because it was made public.

Oh you mean all those doctors dismissing women's pain as hysterics?

Looking at you, Abhinc.

I mean...this is obviously very true, but also don't just dismiss my search out of hand without at least considering the symptoms either. If it's concerning enough to get into your office, I deserve teh courtesy of a real exam. My ankylosing spondylitis could have been caught 2-3 years earlier and my neck wouldn't have fused had the first doc not been a butt about it.

A google search did lead me into discovering that I have "Linburg Comstock," however, which is a thing my primary doc did not know about. ...why would he though, he's not a wrist specialist, and despite LCS being relatively common, a slim percent of those who have it have problems with it, and it is thus not really talked about. Makes it extra fun with trying to find a surgeon who *has* fixed it, or at least one willing to try. And let me watch. Please.

Yeah, but most of the time, people who say this are not doing their jobs. Your years of school and practice don't trump the fact that you refuse to actually apply them.

That depends. See #2 above. Years of education and medical practice doesn't automatically qualify you to give valid, expert, advice. This is compounded even further in the face of "qualified" medical personnel actively speaking against vaccination and the benefits of vaccination.