No medical cure yet for ‘Doctor Google’ and the know-it-all patient

Patients who have self-diagnosed on Google are a major bugbear of GPs and hospital doctors, writes Terry Prone.

THE title of the workshop was ‘The Difficult Patient.’ Every doctor, be they a GP or consultant, has examples. But the irritating habits change over time.

Twenty years ago, at a similar workshop, one GP earned a round of applause when he went cuckoo bananas about the girdle. He hated women who turned up in his clinic wearing it.