Thursday, August 30, 2012

DIAGNOSE YOURSELF

How would like to know what ills you or you will be given an inkling what the doctor would tell you later? You will know beforehand what the diagnostics you will be undergoing and how it will go about; the preparations to do before going to a CATSCAN for example. It would be cool if you know what the hospital will do to you unlike a guinea pig being brought to a slaughter, wouldn't it? And then, you can understand pretty well what the doctor is talking about in plain language unlike  someone who would be wide eyed pretending to understand the doctor. You could discuss with your doctor  and shoot knowledgeable  questions. I am sure your doctor will take care of you better if he could see how pretty well oriented you are with what ills you. Medical language will not be Greek to you and your doctor will not be exasperated repeating and repeating what he wants to tell you in plain language that you can understand. If you still don't know, we doctors are so comfortable talking our language that it is Chinese for us to talk in plain English; or Portuguese if I speak a second language.
Well, you have to go to medical school to do that. You can surf the Internet to understand a few words and some inkling how to go about it.
IN a few months from now, a website will just do that. You will walk your own  illness by clicking on an interactive page. Click what ills you; pain for example. this will bring you to a a page where you can pinpoint where the pain is on a human figure, and so on until you reach the page where you will be instructed and given choices to know your own illness without going to medical school. Watch for it.

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