antarestyl:

No. No, you know what? NO. This is NOT how medicine works. NOT. AT. ALL.

First of why is anybody asking a doc stuff like this over iMessage? How can you even get a wrong number like this??? So no.

Secondly no. You can’t just google symptoms and hope the right thing will come out of it. Especially like this, it is an incredible coincidence that the person googling it got the right answer in the end. In the worst case you get answers for everything from “its an infection” to “it’s cancer” from google.

And do you know why? because symptoms are stuff like “pain” or “a red
rash” and it’s not like that “pain plus rash plus random symptom a
equals specific sickness XY” No it’s not like that. It’s more like “this
sickness MAY cause a number of the following list of symptoms” as well
as “this symptom MAY appear in following sicknesses”

To find the
right diagnosis you gotta combine a lot more than the knowledge of
symptoms. You need the result of your examination, you need blood tests,
pictures, a whole lot of tests. Not just to confirm your theory but
also to prove that it isn’t something else. Pain in the chest could just be from a pulled muscle. It could also be an upset stomach, the onset on an pulmonary infection or an heart attack. And you GOTTA PROVE that it isn’t one of the serve ones that could lead to death.

So just googling symptoms is like the most bullshit way to get to an diagnosis, let alone to get to the treatment, like that is another whole box. (because who would have thought, there are different options for each sickness)

And what the fuck is up with that “it took 3h for trained medical professionals for figure out what took you 3 minutes”? NO THIS IS BULLSHIT. The person googling stuff didn’t figure it out. They gave an guess that happened to be correct.

But you know what the trained medical professionals did? They figures it out. They tested this shit, asked a lot of questions, they examined the patient, did maybe a arteriography and a duplex sonography of the leg to find that there was an blockage of an arterial vessel. They might have done some blood tests and went on to search why there was a blockage, what kind of it and THEN decided that it was the best to put in the stent. They needed these 3 hours to figure out if it was an blockage or a leak of the vessel or something entirely else. They needed the time to figure out if that person even could have the OP, if there were contraindications for this procedure or if there was a better option for this case. And most likely there were other patients they had to care for at the same time too so yeah.

Trained medical professionals figure stuff out. They do the work on the patient.

Some random person googling symptoms are making guesses with the internet.

Fuck this.