The wrong diagnosis?

I have been searching for diseases for a long time on the Internet and in the last few years the site wrong diagnosis.com has been my nemesis.

Let’s begin with the title. There is a suggestion here that you doctor is wrong and the right diagnosis must be on the Internet. Does this appear strange to anyone? Yes doctors are wrong but are you really going to piece it together on the Internet. I cannot think of anything much worse for those suffering from hypochondria than a site telling them not to trust their doctor.

And then tereis there symptom checker. Enter the symptom back pain and along with muscle fatigue and slipped disc the list includes some of the following: chronic leukemia, spinal tumor, multiple myeloma, prostate carcinoma, sickle cell crisis…..and so on. Now what is a patient supposed to do with this list. How do I know it is not leukemia. When doctors diagnose patients they often start with the most probable condition but patients are not this simple they often think the worse especially if they are anxious.

Then there are the adds: do you have breast cancer? Have you been tested for Cancer? Common eye diseases.

Here is a gem I found on the site today

“Silent diseases

Learn about common diseases with no symptoms or “vague symptoms”

What the hell is someone supposed to do to be vigilant about diseases without symptoms?

Although the have a nifty disclaimer on the bottom of the site saying that this information is not intended to replace advice from your own medical team that is exactly what this site tries to do. Your doctor must be wrong; here are the answers.