Do you look up symptoms on the internet before going to the doctor?

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My daughter is a nurse at a small emergency health centre. She was telling me about a woman she admitted the other day. The woman came in insisting that she'd had a heart attack the day before. Really, my daughter asked, whatmakes you think so? the woman got all upset at her for asking questions instead of rushing her to the heart monitors and rudely stated, i know my own body! then proceeded to slap a piece of paper on the deskit was a print out of all the possible symptoms ofheart attacks that she'ddown loaded from internetsites. She'd underlined about 6 of them. See, I have all these symptoms. so, she was admitted. after many questions, it turned out that the poor woman had eaten piza andbeer for dinner than gone out to play a game of volleyball with her church group and been hit very hard on the left shoulder with a ball. So, she indeed had many ofthesymptoms , chestpains(indigestion), diziness( exercise immediately afterdrinkinga few beers) shoulder pain( ball hitting her) and tingling of the fingers(again the ball) excessive sweating( she WAS playing volleyball), nausea( pizza, beer, exercise= nausea). tests were dionewhich belied her selfdiagnosos, pain meds were offered for the shoulder, and off she went home, but before she left my daughter just had to ask why she hadn'tcome in the night before. her response, what? and miss CSI Maimi?