David Batty and agencies
Friday November 10, 2006
Guardian Unlimited
Doctors in doubt about a patient's ailment could use Google to help them reach a diagnosis, researchers said today.
Two Australian doctors have found that entering the symptoms of a tricky case into the internet search engine often results in accurately diagnosing the illness.
They put Google to the test by entering the symptoms of 26 difficult cases recorded in the New England Journal of Medicine into the search engine to see how accurate an aid to diagnosis it was. And in 58% of cases using the search engine led to the correct diagnosis.
I don't know why I find this a positive thing. I really should be freaking out at the fact that google might be right half the time and I actually have hemochromomyoencephelocitis because my eyebrows twitch occasionally.
I can't imagine this will be beneficial the next time i go symptom surfing.
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