All is not available online

With google doctors have gone from being a source of information to the stage of being both a source for cross verification and a object whose statements need to be verified. Personally sitting on the doctors side of the table i feel the net is more a source of headache(for both parties involved) than a source of information. rather than give the various examples of the hazards of net i have this story. It was Saturday night(notice how all the fun stories happen at night) and i got Mr.Internet calling me for an urgent consult. His problem was a mole on his face(been there for 20 years). Being a son of the IT generation he looked it up on the net and found out that the mole can be a skin cancer. so he rushed to me the lowly non skin doctor. After explaining that it was a mole and not cancer as he feared i sent him.

Mr IT again comes after(finding out by a post on Facebook no less) getting a biopsy(painful and useless procedure) he came with the report because he found out that biopsy could tell if it was malignant and then read again that biopsy also can be wrong. The smart IT finally decided the net was not enough so he would trust his doctor(not entirely though, cause he consulted other doctors also). So my advice ppl dont look up the net because anything from rubbish to actual facts are online. There is an air of mistrust regarding the docs but at least remember they have been educated..