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Doctors now find patients obnoxious.

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — A few months ago, Dr. David Golden says, he had to fire a patient for being obnoxious.

The patient had a cough. After examining him, Golden recommended a medication. But then the patient did his own research and became worried about side effects.

“He said, ‘But I read about this on the Internet, and I know this and I know that, and I know I’m right,’ ” remembered Golden, an allergist in Baltimore, Maryland.

Golden says he tried to explain why the side effects weren’t as bad as the patient thought, and why the medicine would take care of his cough. “But he wasn’t open to discussing anything. He countermanded everything I said. So I told him, ‘You know it all, so go take care of yourself. I’m not your doctor anymore.’ “

Golden says he’s all for empowered and educated patients, but some patients have become so empowered, they’re actually putting their care in jeopardy.

“I’ve been doing this for 28 years, and unquestionably it’s gotten much worse,” Golden says.

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SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian girl spontaneously switched blood groups and adopted her donor’s immune system following a liver transplant in the first known case of its type, doctors treating her said Thursday.

Demi-Lee Brennan was aged nine and seriously ill with liver failure when she received the transplant, doctors at a top Sydney children’s hospital told AFP.

Nine months later it was discovered that she had changed blood types and her immune system had switched over to that of the donor after stem cells from the new liver migrated to her bone marrow.

She is now a healthy 15-year-old, Michael Stormon, a hepatologist treating her, told AFP. Stormon said he had given several presentations on the case around the world and had heard of none like it.

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In related news, Dracula isn’t picky about blood type.

An aerial view of the swimming pool at the resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo city on the southern coast of Chile, some 100 km (62 miles) west of Santiago, January 21, 2008. Acknowledged by the Guinness World Records as the world’s largest swimming pool, the lagoon measures 1,013 metres (3,323 ft)) in length, covers an area of eight hectares (20 acres), contains 250,000 cubic meters of water and is navigable in small boats.

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