In this thread there is a fair amount of "Google, MD" talk, so I'll add my own story.
In medical school we were tasked with identifying an unusual cause of a baby's fussiness after eating.
For the first time, everyone got the right answer. My professor wasn't sure whether to be proud of us for all doing deep reading into rare disease or to be angry that we had collaborated.
But in fact, everyone had just popped the unusual findings into Google, which spat back the diagnosis of ALCAPA (anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery).
Your doctor's brain is not the world's best device for information retrieval.
In medical school we were tasked with identifying an unusual cause of a baby's fussiness after eating.
For the first time, everyone got the right answer. My professor wasn't sure whether to be proud of us for all doing deep reading into rare disease or to be angry that we had collaborated.
But in fact, everyone had just popped the unusual findings into Google, which spat back the diagnosis of ALCAPA (anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery).
Your doctor's brain is not the world's best device for information retrieval.