As a doctor, how does it feel when a patient comes to you with all the Googled knowledge?

作为医生，当病人跟你求诊时对病的认知都是谷歌来的是什么感觉？

I'm thinking, wow a patient who has done her homework. The patient who types in all of her symptoms into Google and comes up with a list of differential diagnoses— will end up having just that a partial list of possible diagnoses. Google cannot diagnose. There is no way that a computer can take 12 different symptoms and know how much weight to give it. For example a patient just started on medication for high blood pressure with headache and cough could be lead astray into web sites for brain tumor or asthma when she is experiencing a side effect of her blood pressure medication (lisinopril— causes an ace inhibitor cough). So no, I'm not worried. The computer is not going to replace a doctor anytime soon.

我会觉得哇，这个病人真的是有做了功课。病人把自己的症状输入谷歌去检索，检索出一列不同的诊断结果，最终对病的认识只限于这部分检索出的诊断结果。谷歌不能断诊。电脑不可能对12种不同的症状进行轻重缓急的判断。举个例子，一个病人刚刚开始服用抗高血压药物后出现了头疼和咳嗽。网站可能就会误导你说这两个症状是脑瘤或者是哮喘，而这不过是服用了血压药物的副作用。（赖诺普利——会因血管紧张肽I转化酶抑制剂而引起咳嗽）所以，我不担心。电脑不能马上就取代一个医生。

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