What Ails You? Why a Diagnosis Makes a Difference for Infertility Patients
Calling Dr. Google! Who hasn’t summoned the ‘good doctor’ to their home (computer) over a sickness, symptom or suggestion? The internet and the information highway have changed the practice of medicine forever. And both patients and physicians are trying to adjust to this new technology. The internet has given patients an amazing amount of information but unfortunately in an unorganized, unobjective way without the built in ‘controls’ that evaluate the information dispensed. Instead, patients gather information from the internet and then ask their physician to interpret the results. Problem is that the results that they have collected may be inaccurate at worst, and at best, have absolutely nothing to do with their individual circumstances.