Internet Medicine

Alright! I've had enough. I love my patients, I really do, I don't even mind the med students, they're fun, you get to mess with their head. But really people, do you think you can get all of your medical information from the internet???

Every day it seems we have pts convinced that they have some disease or another (mind you there in the ICU because of a stroke) and yet they don't listen to you when you tell them that they have diabetes. "Oh, I don't believe in that stuff." or the best "WebMD never said anything about that." It's great, you have to bat your college degree and the docs skill against the internet. It's a game of "How fast can you google??"

Part II, last week I caught a med student looking up a procedure on Wikipedia before he preformed it. Yep that's right folks, he was using Wikipedia as his source of medical knowledge. To say the least I pulled the equipment out of his hand. Not on my pt thank you!

Anyone scared yet??