On Wednesday 17 November 2004 6:35 pm, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
Given how bad some of the medical attention I have received in the past doing google searches won't do any harm. Quite often doctors are very good at seeing things they know about, but are very often not open to suggestion that it could be a different problem. After all, they are human, and there have been times I have taken my car to an "expert" who was a good mechanic, but he couldn't see the wood for the trees, you also get the same in IT, sometimes people won't consider that X is the problem, because they have only ever seen Y causes similar symptoms before.
Maybe Googling about a bit for additional information or to reinforce/dispel a doctors opinion, I've done that for my Dad who suffers from Parkinsons.
But to start taking medication and form a complete diagnosis based on this research sounds a bit dangerous.
I hear what you are saying about blinkered expert opinion. Thing is that messing about regardless of what the "Expert" is telling you on your Car or your Computer is unlikely to cost you anything other than time and money if you get it wrong. Messing about with medication like that could well cost Patrick his life, or at least make what is sounding like a pretty serious condition far worse.