Do you Google your symptoms?

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Do you turn to doctor Google instead of seeing a real doctor? Are you a hypochondriac or do you have to be dragged to the doctor?

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I usually Google and see if I need to turn to doctor.

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Unlike some countries, doctors in Australia can be free, so I'd see one for any issues. I understand some people can't afford to see docs for everything.

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Google always tells me I'm dying so I stopped using it and just ask my doctor. 😅

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Yeah certainly, if you aren't informed you will not even know what the doctor is talking about. 
But also, people act like we can just go to a doctor and if we can get that far, they actually will help? 
People are looking on google because they don't have access to adequate healthcare or doctors who listen and actually improve the situation for that patient. 
Doctors can help a lot, but not if they don't listen, or do the right things, run the right tests, etc. And they straight up do not have time to help a lot of people with complex health problems. 
I've been to a billion doctors, I'm still sick. 
And "the fairly local vegan" I think she's called now- had a video about years of suffering due to misdiagnosis and not being helped by doctors effectively for like 15 years. She has bowel endometriosis, but was misdiagnosed with chrons.

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Sometimes but I also know how to look for reputable sites and take everything with a grain of salt. If I google something and it says cancer among many things I don’t freak out.

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I’m a major hypochondriac

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I use Google to see if I can get away with not going to the hospital or help see if there's any symptoms that I'm overlooking.
Recently it was blood in stool, so a quick Google search gave me 2 options who's symptoms sounded about right and neither needed a hospital visit. I hate getting hospital bills for visits that just tell me it's normal and they can't really do anything. I don't like wasting my time 🤷

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