You see your gastroenterologist with long standing stomach pain. You have undergone a reasonable evaluation and all the endoscopic bodily invasions and imaging studies of your abdomen have been normal. Repeated lab work provides no clue explaining your distress. You have been twice to the emergency room and were sent home with prescriptions that didn’t work. You are frustrated and so is your gastro guy. You are convinced that there is a diagnosis that has been missed and you have the Google search to prove it. Every physician has had patients who come into the office with reams of paper from an internet search. Usually, this approach uses a net that is just slightly over-sized for the task at hand. It would be like using a butterfly net to catch a paramecium. Paramecia - Use a Small Net to Catch these Critters! Plug a few symptoms into a search engine, and then be prepared to take a year or so to review the results. Pick a symptom, any symptom. Whistleblow
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