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more about #webmd leftyleftylou: I love WebMD, and it saved my life about 2 months ago. I was bitten by some bug on a Sunday afternoon, and by the evening I realized that the bite wa... more » kbang: In Ontario we have this fantastic thing called Telehealth where you can call toll free and talk to a nurse, 24 hours a day. They do the spectacularly... more » Cimorene: I learned about how to cure a yeast infection from a homeopathic website that was run by a chemistry (or something) professor who got a lot of yeast i... more » tiredfairy: I actually think the trend of self-diagnosing for women is a sort of multi-level problem. I think a lot of women feel marginalized by modern medicine,... more » Mary Ratliff: You know what annoys me? That I actually use these sites in order to better describe what I'm going through with my doctor. I have these weird pains... more » Where The Mild Things Are: My mom sent me this article on how "House" in combination with the Web is affecting real medicine: [www.msnbc.msn.com] I use Dr. Google, but it's th... more » BytheSea: The majority of women also feel their doctors don't listen to them and blow off legitimate concerns and symptoms. and most young women have inadaquet ... more » Eibmoz: Web MD says everything is possibly fatal. I talked to my doctor a few weeks ago and she told me that if she doesnt go to the internet to diagnose, nei... more » Sonadelite: What's really tough is the confusion you can generate in your life after you are diagnosed with a lifelong ailment, particularly by relying on online ... more » Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini: Whatever you do, do not search "dizziness." It is apparently involved with all of the most terrifying diagnoses imaginable. Or you could just be overt... more » hfree: My main problem with sites like WebMD is that it's often hard to tell what is an ad and what is actual editorial content. That being said, I just che... more » sybann: I heard a story on our local public station about how some doctors think the health care crisis and escalated spending (and drug prescribing) can be l... more » rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny: I think the problem is that the internet doesn't give you great context, common things can get listed right net to the rare and when there are symptom... more » Fatwetdog: Weirdly, my actual human doctor just assumes I've googled everything and figured it out already. She doesn't even tell me a diagnosis. She doesn't rea... more » jigglyball: Nine times out of 10, my WebMD experience goes something like this: "Hmm, I've had this sore throat and cough for three days straight now, I'll see w... more » Grim Reaper of the Forest: I also have found Web MD to be pretty conservative when it comes to advising "when to go to a doctor" regarding things like sprains, rashes, flus, etc... more » Grim Reaper of the Forest: I am a little bit of a hypochondriac, and I use things like Web MD to research things I don't feel comfortable wasting my doctor's time about, or to r... more » morninggloria: I'm a reverse hypochondriac. I use the internet to look up my symptoms and justify not going to the doctor. "It could just be stress!" This really ... more » la.donna.pietra: Over the course of about 25 years, my mom diagnosed me with allergies to wheat, dairy, chocolate, and bananas; scoliosis, hypoglycemia, "not getting e... more » Atomic Bowling: I kind of hate internet medical websites, because they make you paranoid and cause you to believe that it's possible that you actually have rare disor... more » -
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