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Medical Humor

Google Isn’t ALWAYS Right When It Comes To Medicine…

April 9th, 2021

We love the Internet.  We do!  Heck this piece is ON the Internet which is where you’re reading it.  We share plenty of great information from all around the web here, on our Facebook page and in our email newsletter (call us to be added to it).  You can even get great and reliable medical information online from the CDC itself just as an example.  BUT – and this is a big but, do NOT use the Internet to self-diagnose if you need medical attention and the Internet is no substitute for a doctor.

Okay we got that out of the way.

Google

Now when it comes to a medical BLOG like the one you’re reading right now a lot goes into writing and publishing these articles so that you’re informed and even entertained.  And even a medical practice can look to the Internet for answers like we just did – you see we thought we would Google some good ideas for medical blog posts and well, let’s just say Google doesn’t seem to have understood the question.  Let’s look at the first few results and ponder whether these are good suggestions shall we?

Google

Let’s take these one by one:

How To Guides:  Okay not horrible we suppose in theory, but how to draw blood, how to administer an EKG test?  Instructions for listening to someone’s lungs?  I think we’ll leave the how-to-ing to the doctors thanks.

Politics: YEAHHHH!  That’s a GREAT idea right?  A healthy dose of politics on our blog?  That won’t raise anyone’s blood pressure….  Sheesh.  No.

Bacon:  Hello?  Now would that be responsible?  No.  No it would not.  Please limit your intake of bacon and we’ll leave it at that.

Recipes:  Okay – now we’re talking.  We already know this, and we talk nutrition here all the time with Nanette Cameron!

Beginner Guides:  From a doctor’s office?  A beginner’s guide to what?  Being a doctor?  Going to the doctor’s office?  Nope that one doesn’t seem to fit either.

 

Google FAIL right?  We guess we’ll have to figure this one out on our own…. lol.

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5 “Potential Reasons” Why You Have White Coat Syndrome…

September 3, 2020

You may or may not be familiar with white coat syndrome.  Here is a link to an article in Medical News Today defining what it is and why it shouldn’t just be completely ignored.  Hypertension isn’t something to mess around with.

Now having said that, we do know as it says in the article that the anxiety of being around doctors may indeed have something to do with a temporary spike in blood pressure.  Why is this?  We’re not all bad we swear….. hehe…

White Coat Syndrome

 

We did some extensive and “really good” research and came up with five reasons that could explain this phenomenon.

5 Reasons You Might Have White Coat Syndrome

1. Your doctor looks like this guy…

Yep that’s Jack Elam as Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing in the silly film Cannonball Run.  We wouldn’t blame you if he gave you a little anxiety…

2. Your mother has been reminding you every time you sit down to eat to take care of yourself because of the heart history in your family as she’s serving you a huge pot roast and encouraging you to take seconds and thirds followed by homemade pound cake.  By the time you get to the doctor you’re terrified.

3. Your doctor has a picture of Ohio Stadium in the lobby and you’re a Michigan grad.  Okay that’s not exactly white coat syndrome – more like scarlet and grey uniform syndrome… either way it makes your blood boil.

4. Your doctor’s office lobby has the same color scheme as the principal’s office did at your high school.

5. Your doctor’s scale has been way off the last 8 straight times you’ve stepped on it.  No really you swear it has.

 

And there they are – the 5 reasons that might explain your white coat syndrome!

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South Macomb Internal Medicine

28401 Hoover Rd.  Warren, Michigan 48093

Phone: (586) 276-7530

South Macomb Internal Medicine has been designated a Patient Centered Medical Home by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

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Filed Under: Medical Humor Tagged With: 5 Reasons, Ascension Health Care, Doctor, Doctor's Office, Humor, Internal Medicine, Internist, Macomb, Medical Humor, Metro Detroit, Metro Detroit Doctor, Michigan, White Coat Syndrome

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