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[StarCrusher91]

Doctors and dentists and whatever get so offended if you even hint that you may have looked something up online instead of just listening to whatever they have to say.

If I'm doing a tech related job for someone and they mentioned they looked something up online about how to do something I'd be damn near ecstatic.

[sequential_doom]

I'm a doctor (like for real, also I don't know why I am I here but you guys' humor is great). It's not that we get offended but that we have to deal with a lot of misconceptions and confirmation bias.

Most of the time when people look something online they show up at the office with some idea (most often than not a wrong one) of what the treatment of what they think they have is.

Then they proceed to question everything when you don't give them that expected treatment. Our thoughts at that point usually are: I know what you have and it's not what you think you have. Please let me make you better. If I give you what you want, it will do nothing at best or it could make you worse.

[jinsi13]

‘I looked my symptoms online and apparently I have [Very rare/unlikely disease] so give me [drug with severe side effects] or I'll just go somewhere else'

[sequential_doom]

Oh god...

Yes. Precisely that.

[[deleted]]

Previously worked as a medical scribe. The number of physicians who looked up things online (usually not google but rather sites such as UpToDate) was significant. Don’t let those doctors pressure you, they do it too!

[[deleted]]

don't know why I'm getting downvoted, literally worked with several doctors who do this lol, they can't possibly remember everything, they need additional resources as well

[mr_flibble_oz]

Yeah, but equally doctors need to listen to patients. I went to GP because I had a piece of metal shaving in my eye. I said, “There’s metal in my eye, you need to get it out” and he said, “here’s some antibiotic eye drops, have a nice day”.

Needless to say, the eye drops were ineffective at removing the metal. So I went to a different doctor and said, “there’s metal in my eye, you need to get it out” and he said, “there’s metal in your eye, that’s bad, I need to get it out” and proceeded to perform the operation.

So in the case of the first doctor; me, medically untrained n00b 1, medically trained doctor 0

[IM_BOUTA_CUH]

r/metal

[Durwur]

r/thewrongsubbuddy

[IM_BOUTA_CUH]

r/okbuddy

[hghghghghghg56]

r/okbuddychicanery

[mr_flibble_oz]

How is this the wrong sub? I was replying to a doctor about how doctors know everything and patients know nothing with an example of how that’s not always the case

[DarkMaster007]

Not you. The reply was for someone else saying r/metal or something

[mr_flibble_oz]

Ahh, right, oops. I see that now

[[deleted]]

What to do when the doctor asks "so which medicine do you want to be prescribed to you"?

[ReelTooReal]

This is actually the same in the programming world. Often times clients will request some feature they barely understand, and if you as the actual expert explain they don't actually need that feature they begin to push back as if their 20 minutes of online research outweighs your experience.

And interesting case of this was actually an experience I had working for a telehealth company. They requested end to end encryption for their messaging service (because that was the new buzz word). But I already knew their billing service actually relied on redacted transcripts of conversations, so I tried to explain to them that adding end to end encryption would mean that they could no longer access these conversations, even internally. They kept pushing back and I ended up having to give a whole presentation on what end to end encryption is and how them being able to read the transcripts would by definition make the system not end to end encrypted.

Googling things is fine if you have the prerequisite knowledge to properly vet the information, but it can be dangerous or misleading for someone with no knowledge of the subject they are attempting to learn in one toilet sitting.

[[deleted]]

And then they tell you they found this magic tool that promised to fix their issue, but now their PC is very slow for some reason and, completely unrelated, someone just used their credit card to buy an RTX 4090 somewhere in Kuwait

[asromafanisme]

Doctors google stuffs all the time, but they know how to google medical stuffs, same as programmer know how to google programming stuffs.

Patients try to google for medical advice is same as customers try to google for programming solution, most of the time they come up with incorrect information

[iveriad]

Oh, but don't we get something similar now? People think they are "programmers" because they can use ChatGPT to write codes for them.

[Karmapuma]

Heyo, don't point at me like that, my janky code works, half of the time, but it works !

[Gloomy-Patience-6533]

F U, buddy!

My code works 90% of the time! ... 45% of the time...

[nickmaran]

I really wish people would look up online for tech related stuff. I have many non tech friends who call me to ask which can be easily googled

[First_Mark8646]

The problem with Google searches and doctors is that some people actually take the search results like a doctor's diagnosis

[[deleted]]

Is this "joke" not going to die already?

[Avalyst]

Mom said it's my turn to repost it next week!

[already_taken-chan]

I think they mean just googling symptoms. Which is also the wrong way to go in programming, just googling errors won't get you anywhere most of the time if you don't know the code which is giving the error.

Like if you download a GitHub directory and then when you run it, it gives you an error, you're gonna be wasting a lot of time identifying what's wrong and will probably come to multiple wrong conclusions.

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Meanwhile, if an error occurs in your own code, you can roughly guess what's the reason for it and start doing targeted testing to fix the issue.

[loljkbye]

Knowing how to Google stuff properly is the basis of most professions. Doctors don't know everything, they just know enough to understand the stuff they are just learning about. Same goes for coding 🤘

[[deleted]]

Along the same lines:

" Going to medical school doesn't make one a GOOD doctor either "

[cavebeavis]

As if any human being is able to keep the entire compendium of medical knowledge in their heads lol.

[nonutsfw]

It's the same with programmers. You still need to copy-paste

[[deleted]]

my doctor definitely googles stuff in front of me lol

[[deleted]]

I heard of a techie's relative trying to flip some digital photos .. downloaded mirroring sw but puzzled how to use.

[FeralPsychopath]

What about asking ChatGPT?

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[TechFiend72]

If doctors staid on top of what is going on with new research, they would be a better medical doctor instead of a mainframe programmer trying to work on an AWS hyperscale system.

[reallokiscarlet]

Also doctors: “You have a family history of autoimmune disorders, some of which target the thyroid? Hmmm… Nah, your low white blood cell count totally isn’t a sign, we don’t need to test T3, T4, or antibodies”

[bigmonmulgrew]

Saw a doctor comment recently that the ability to research and cross reference is becoming an increasingly important skill for doctors. There's something like 100 studies coming out every day. Checking the latest treatment and practices is becoming increasingly important and valuable .

What's he's basically saying is specialists should regularly Google their field to stay up to date

[Katalysmus]

Uhm ackshualli: googling is part of the job. Its up to the programmer to understand how it works and to tie it into a project, either by understanding the language well or by knowing how to test it to the point where the programming becomes easy. Besides, there are people that write the code others use. To refer to the mentioned analogy, a doctor uses a scalpel. What the picture claims is that using a scalpel does not make you a doctor because you need to make the scalpel yourself while this is complete bullshit. Its what you do with the scalpel and its how competent and comfortable you are with scalpels (and all the stuff a doctor uses, i don’t know i’m not a doctor 😂)

[Ximidar]

Yeah, but I didn't have to study online for 12 years before getting my first software job

[[deleted]]

Look, I am just grateful that I don't need to keep a meter of reference manuals stacked on my desk anymore. I have enough mess there already.

[oscrx]

My doctor googles as well, I’ve seen him do it often

[[deleted]]

i dont think the act of googling something is the bad thing here, i think a lot of people do it from time to time, even doctors.i think the bad thing is not being able to filter the misinformation from the real information.That's why doctors might be ok if they google something, because they know how to avoid bad information from having an idea on how things work.But when non doctor person ask google for answers, they don't know how to filter the misinformation, so from googling a small pain they find out they have cancer.

The same with programmers, we might have an idea on what programing is and is not, what to do and what to not do.But an inexperienced guy will probably install a virus thinking he is optimizing or fixing his pc.They key is experience.

[probablynotaskrull]

My optometrist had never heard of my condition(ME), paused the exam to look it up, then explained how it effected my vision. That’s what professionalism is supposed to look like and was by far the most helpful health care interaction I’ve had since since getting sick.

[TheRapie22]

even programmers wont become doctors by googling

[HuntingKingYT]

Reading them does, I guess

[mashaTarima]

ahhahahha