what if your doctor pulled out a reference book in front of you?
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Anonymous
| I have had several doctors do this and they are the doctors that I trust the most. I love that they are confident enough to say they aren't sure and will find out. |
Anonymous
| Think of it this way, malpractice claims happen significantly more often to those doctors who DON'T do this. So, do you want a doctor to verify what he's doing before doing it, or one that will just guess or "think he remembers" and diagnoses or prescribes from a sketchy memory? |
Anonymous
Yes, but usually only used by subpar lifeforms. |
Anonymous
| They must not have been AOA in med school... |
Anonymous
| I had this in my 30s when I had chicken pox. Dr was not young. I was surprised given it's a pretty standard disease! I was very sick though, so just grateful for any help. |
Anonymous
Me too! Had chicken pox in my 40s. My doc was in his late 30s and knew what to prescribe, but not what dosage for an adult with chickenpox. I was glad he went and looked it up. He's a good doc--listed in washingtonian mag as a top doc. |
Anonymous
I don't think most medical journals are accessible on the internet. If my 7th grader isn't allowed to use Wikipedia as a primary source, neither is my doctor!! |
Anonymous
I imagine you could pay to subscribe to online medical journals, as a good doc should do if he wants to stay up to date. |
Anonymous
| Now that I live in NYC, I've had some pretty bad experiences with doctors who just rush you through, a doctor who answered her cell phone in the middle of the appointment without even excusing herself, and just generally doctors that cut corners. I would be so grateful if a doctor took the time to do what he needed to do to treat me. A doctor who looks things up is a doctor who wants to do the best job he can. |
Anonymous
This. Take into consideration that medicine is a dynamic field. What was current protocol for a specific condition 5 or 10 years ago, may be updated today. It is great the dr keeps up with the litarature and if he feels that he hadn't looked into a certain condition for some time or it may have had updates that he is not sure of that he is not lazy or shy to look it up. |
Anonymous
| I'd be fine with it. I'd be happy that the doc realized he/she didn't know the answer and knew where to look up the correct answer. |
Anonymous
| I had this happen at a Minute Clinic. But it was a PA. It was a very basic complaint and he wasn't much help. |
Anonymous
They are online. DH's medical study got recently approved for publication and it was online way sooner than it was printed. |
Anonymous
| Depends what they were looking up and why. We had a newbie pediatric dermatologist do this...but he did it to show us a photo of a rash that looked like what our on had (I guess to show us he was right). So, that wasn't an issue for me. |
Anonymous
| Are doctors really expected to have every symptom of every ailment perfectly memorized? |