S/W professionals and doctors!

When I was pregnant with my daughter 6 years back, my doctor used to tell me - "It is very tough to handle people in software field as patients.. they just read something on net and then come and eat our time with innumerous questions." At that point of time, I just brushed it off thinking that may be she is saying that because it is waste of time (and ofcourse money) for her!

After that, it was one of our family friend who said "I just hate to consult when the patient is working as software professional". His issue was the same - they waste time by asking too many questions...This happened a few months back.

Yesterday, it was one more doc who complained that these days, people just ask too many questions because they read / research on net and waste their time during consultation.

All the three are specialists in their own area and see around 70-80 patients a day and they are from three different age groups and locations!!!!

The fact is that doctors are
-  pressed for time as there are far too many patients these days (ofcourse, we rush to the doctor for things that were treated with home remedies when we were young!)
- There are genuinely people who need their attention urgently and the petty cases (in their view) are happily chatting away
- They have spent enough and more time learning what they practice while we google it for 10 mts and talk like we are the masters of the subject :)

When I was thinking about it, I also felt that sometimes medicines are not working as they should do in an ideal scenario, as we have too many doubts about the treatment. As humans, the natural tendency is to believe in the worst that we read based on the symptoms (search for headache and you may start believing that you have brain cancer). So, as the general philosophy goes, if you dont believe in something, it will not work for you,

May be, it is time for us to do some amount of contemplation and do our searches only when it is really needed - especially when it comes to medication. After all, why are there experts if one could become master of everything by 'google-ing'?!

Ofcourse there are misses/malpractice etc., etc., which pushes us to do what we do, but do you think they were not existing 20-25 years back?!