I've never found durian pleasing to taste, but I have occasionally enjoyed it for being alcoholic.

Now, a bit of internet reading won't make me an expert, but during my consultation it allowed me to be an active participant

Misdiagnosis is very common, rates around 10%-30% are often seen, so obviously a medical degree doesn't necessarily make one an expert either. Human disease is simply a far too varied field with far too many similar symptoms for doctors to have even a fighting chance to get it right much more than that with the time available for each patient.

Researching on your own has shown to cut down the chances of misdiagnosis quite a lot; at least you can point out possible problems or alternatives that the doctor might have missed or forgotten, or point out symptoms that you may have thought insignificant at first.

It would be nice with more refined diagnosis tools on the net tho; easily accessible and structured decision trees which can guide you through how to both rule in and rule out possibilities would make a good tool for both patients and doctors. Done correctly it could even cut down unnecessary doctors visits and/or increase chances of early discovery of some diseases.