It's a pretty sad state of affairs when the patient has to tell the doctor what the ailment is. Is this typical in the Canadian healthcare system?
This happens everywhere! I know a lady that died from breast cancer because even with the history of every female in her family dying from cancer and she had it several times in her life herself, he neglected to schedule her for a mammogram for THREE years! By the time a nurse found it, it was to late..

In another state, a guy I work with, his Mom died because of a toxic mix of drugs that were treating 2 diseases she DID NOT HAVE! This man, her son, had went to the Mayo clinic's web sight and researched what they were treating her for and asked the doctor if they had ran test "X" & test "Y" to confirm those diseases... They had not but did before that day ended, she did not have those diseases. The next day he met the doctor at the door with the print outs on those two drug that said they were toxic together and he stopped those drugs but it was to late... She died a few days later..

YET, you tell a doctor you looked something up on the internet and they tell you you can't believe what you read on the web.. My response to those doctors is THEY force us to go look it up because they fail to treat us and make us well so we either look for the information ourselves or just quietly die!

Thank God your step Dad had the good sense to go look it up for himself!