Doctor Google is here to stay – and here to help | Ranjana Srivastava

Oncologists told Bronte Doyne to stop Googling her symptoms. She died of a rare cancer. Doctors must go back to listening and genuine caring

Few doctors could have read about Bronte Doyne and not thought: “There but for the grace of God go I.”

Doyne was 19 when she succumbed to an extremely rare form of liver cancer whose recurrence went undiagnosed because doctors, specialists and GPs at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust failed to listen or believe her complaints. Her increasingly urgent pleas for help were met with an admonishment to “stop Googling” her symptoms.

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