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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I am a doctor and I looked up the treatment for a skin thing the other day, but felt awkward doing so in front of the patient. It was a minor common thing, which is partly why I felt awkward, but also, the person was not an English speaker, so we were using a telephone translation service - didn't know how it would sound to hear "your doctor isn't sure how to treat this, so they will look it up and come back."[/quote]

I am glad you looked it up.  Sometimes even common things need to be double checked.

My favorite doctor in the world went and asked his colleagues a couple of things and when they weren't sure he looked it up.  He brought the book right into the exam room and searched right in front of me.  I loved that he wasn't afraid to look up treatments for my problem.

I had a similar experience at the pediatricians office.  DS was three and had blistering from his shoulder all the way down to his fingertips.  His doctor wasn't quite sure what it was and got a second opinion from other peds in the office and she used the Internet. Turns out DS had shingles down his arm.  She prescribed Tylenol-3 for him because he was in so much pain.  She even called a couple of times over the week just to check on him and then I brought him into the office after a week so she could look at how they were healing.  The next time I went in to see her she said she had just seen another 3 year old patient with the same presentation of shingles and she was pleased she had the experience with us and that she could diagnosis this other boy easily.[/quote]

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