Medical Information Overload

It is tremendously confusing to try and learn about medical conditions through the Internet. I try and direct my patients to one main source through the national library of medicine (otherwise known as medline). This is a http://www.nlm.nih.gov/. It is great starting point to learn about your health. The other confusing thing is deciding what kinds of questions that are helpful when meeting with your doctor. The website Ask Me 3 is very helpul and basically states that the three most important questions when discussing your health condition is 1) what is my main problem? 2) what do I need to do?, and 3) why is important for me to do this? Check out http://www.npsf.org/askme3/ for more info.