Dr. Google or Dr. Sutkowski? Who are patients betting on?
Dr. Sutkowski, let's bet on Dr. Sutkowski (laughs).
How about going to a search engine for a diagnosis, and to a doctor for medication?
For a diagnosis undoubtedly to the search engine. Later, a moment of wondering if I can handle it. And then to us doctors. Fortunately, patients have respect for me, for which I can only thank them, and enough attentiveness and culture that they usually don't make their own diagnoses right away. Of course, they have their own vision of what is going on. Sometimes it happens that they try to pull up and impose a diagnosis. Sometimes they are right. Then you have to admit it to the patient, that this time the Internet and the patient were not wrong. But more often the opposite is true. It is difficult for the patient to find himself in all this , because he needs to know the context, and sometimes he searches in the dark. As a result, the patient's thoughts diverge into things that are not there.
But ultimately patients go to a family doctor. A family doctor is one with a specialty. This is also often said of PCPs. Collectively, this is a large professional group.
The total is more than thirty...
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