Heart Sisters


What doctors really think about women who are ‘Medical Googlers”

Posted in Cardiology 101,Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing,Women and heart attacks by Carolyn Thomas on August 19, 2009

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Me: “My name is Carolyn, and I’m a Medical Googler.”

You, all together now: “Hello Carolyn!”

This will come as no surprise to any of you who have visited this site before, but I’m just a wee bit obsessed about All Things Cardiac. From the minute I was sent home from hospital last May following my heart attack, I started mainlining Google like it was a drug, and I became hooked. I threw myself into researching women’s heart disease in a determined attempt to figure out what the heck had just hit me. And after I had the opportunity to spend five days at Mayo Clinic in October, I became truly insufferable. (more…)