I know better than to look up my symptoms online. I do look up all my new meds since I don’t have a current nurse’s drug guide. That’s a more useful book than a PDR. The PDR is just a collection of all the package inserts of the meds in it. Companies pay to be in the PDR. A nurse’s drug guide is more objective with easier to understand explanations. Mind you, it is still in some medical language, but not heavily so, and certainly not in pharmacology technobabble. It’s also more affordable than a PDR, much more. I got mine at Barnes & Noble.
As my wife tells her patients: “Go to Web MD, look up your symptoms, decide what rare disease it is you are dying of and then grab a cup of coffee and give me a call and we can have a good laugh.”
Looks like you’re off to the local walmart for a day of shopping and airconditioning. I spend a lot of time looking a electronics and sporting goods when the temperature start getting over 90 outside.
If I have symptoms I want to look up I use Mayo Clinic but when I want to know about any new drugs I get I will look it up on WebMD or sometimes Mayo Clinic.
seanfear 12 months ago
Good enough. I’ve googled them one day and I’ve discovered I was dead already.
FreyjaRN Premium Member 12 months ago
I know better than to look up my symptoms online. I do look up all my new meds since I don’t have a current nurse’s drug guide. That’s a more useful book than a PDR. The PDR is just a collection of all the package inserts of the meds in it. Companies pay to be in the PDR. A nurse’s drug guide is more objective with easier to understand explanations. Mind you, it is still in some medical language, but not heavily so, and certainly not in pharmacology technobabble. It’s also more affordable than a PDR, much more. I got mine at Barnes & Noble.
rockyridge1977 12 months ago
Nothing like a holiday to wear you out!
Daltongang Premium Member 12 months ago
Aunty you don’t need a holiday, you need an intervention.
jango 12 months ago
“Holiday….oh, what a lovely day today.”R. Davies
DM2860 12 months ago
No, that was a sponsored ad by a travel agency
dflak 12 months ago
As my wife tells her patients: “Go to Web MD, look up your symptoms, decide what rare disease it is you are dying of and then grab a cup of coffee and give me a call and we can have a good laugh.”
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member 12 months ago
Looks like you’re off to the local walmart for a day of shopping and airconditioning. I spend a lot of time looking a electronics and sporting goods when the temperature start getting over 90 outside.
old_geek 12 months ago
I checked with ChatGPT…
My Ovarian Prostatitis is Molting.
ladykat 12 months ago
Don’t we all?
paranormal 12 months ago
There’s no holiday when you’re retired…
CorkLock 12 months ago
Take a Holiday from booze. Plop plop fizz fizz. What a relief it is.
Teto85 Premium Member 12 months ago
Time for a Mental Health Day.
sheashea 12 months ago
Me too Aunty, me too. Haven’t had a real vacation since 2017.
Moonkey Premium Member 12 months ago
If you rely on Dr Google, you can get any answer you want.
Sambora1 12 months ago
If I have symptoms I want to look up I use Mayo Clinic but when I want to know about any new drugs I get I will look it up on WebMD or sometimes Mayo Clinic.