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What Happens When Dr Google Is a Prime Referral Source
Jennifer Frank, MD
Disclosures January 13, 2022
Dr Google has become a very reliable referral source for my practice. In the early days of internet medicine, patients would often come in telling me what they had after having done their own research. With full disclosure, they were sometimes right. More recently, though, I have seen a change in the tone of our conversations in which the Google search done for chest pain, left fingernail color change, or hair falling out is combining with this global anxiety brought on by the global pandemic. Now I am seeing much more fear and anxiety about what the various symptoms could be; often the fear runs to serious diseases, such as cancer, that are extremely unlikely...
What Happens When Dr Google Is a Prime Referral Source
Jennifer Frank, MD
Disclosures January 13, 2022
Dr Google has become a very reliable referral source for my practice. In the early days of internet medicine, patients would often come in telling me what they had after having done their own research. With full disclosure, they were sometimes right. More recently, though, I have seen a change in the tone of our conversations in which the Google search done for chest pain, left fingernail color change, or hair falling out is combining with this global anxiety brought on by the global pandemic. Now I am seeing much more fear and anxiety about what the various symptoms could be; often the fear runs to serious diseases, such as cancer, that are extremely unlikely...
