It sounds like a reasonable claim, but we both know that people use the
Internet for different purposes. In other words, different people have
different interests and they often don't choose to find out about their
medical problems. Speaking of self-education, even decades and centuries ago
one could go down to the library and acquire the knowledge of an M.D. The
internet as an information source is not selective about the fields it
covers.
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----- Original Message -----
>From: "Harvey Tobkes" <harveyT@prodigy.net>
To: "Roy Schestowitz" <sch@danielsorogon.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: Thumbs Up
> Although I know you know enough on the subject already, here is the source
> that I used to bring myself up-to-date:
> Thanks for the e-Medicine website information on Trigger Thumb. Somehow, I
> had read the exact same Page, which I must have gotten from one of my
Search
> Engines. Funny, when I went to a Surgeon Hand Specialist for treatment, I
> knew about as much as he did about the problem. He asked me if I had
> Diabetes and I said, "No, and I don't have osteoarthritis either." He
gave
> me a shot of cortisone and replaced my homemade splint with a professional
> version. When I mentioned that the Internet was making, "doctors out of
> patients," he laughed. Some physicians would have taken offense at that.
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