Does Your GP Use Wikipedia?

[Spyro 10]

Maybe it was the Doctor that put the Wiki page up in the first place.

[Phanerothyme 12]

It's good to know. Let's hope the doctor wasn't looking at it in that five minute gap just after I had changed it and just before it was changed back to its previous state.

 

Why? Because you think a doctor would simply believe everything he reads on wikipedia?

[epiphany 10]

My doctor has two dice-one with a disease on each face and one a treatment on each face.You can guess the rest.

 

*roll* severe spinal injury

 

*roll* plaster

[testydonkey 10]

I would rather a GP look up my symtoms on the internet to be sure rather than rely totally on his/her memory.

[Bonjon 10]

I would not be worried if my Doctor had to rely on other sources as another option, atleast there researching what it could be rather than just guessing.

[morrisseygal 10]

Is the GP young? I have on occasion seen my doctor look through his own medical book and I have seen young new doctors look through them quite alot and never been bothered by it, they are only double checking.

[poppins 10]

Most doctors use Google though, so I was told be an ER doctor.

[shanes teeth 10]

*roll* severe spinal injury

 

*roll* plaster

 

That's one of the more appropriate outcomes.I once had "laryngitis"and"enema"Mind you it worked,I soon got my voice back.

[BananaSplit 10]

I've known my GP look in reference books, but never on the internet!

[Agent Orange 11]

My GP has never used wikipedia, to my knowledge, but has often sought a second opinion by referring to journal or other material. I have no problems with a GP seeking information from the net or anywhere else.

[LukeD 10]

Mine uses a crystal ball.

[Conker2 10]

There must be loads of well-accredited sources of medical information for GPs on the internet. Why use one that anyone can tinker with? It can't be the only reference site available to them.