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Is Google a good diagnostic tool for doctors?
Hello all,
Before answering, please at least consider this
Guardian article…with its pros and cons.
[Extra credit to readers of BMJ article!!]
Googling for a diagnosis-use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet
based study
Hangwi Tang, Jennifer Hwee Kwoon Ng
http://press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/november/google.pdf
Aricle in Guardian article:
Doctors turn to Google for tricky cases [Friday November 10, 2006]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,1945029,00.html
Excerpts:
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…..
I think googling is a good place to LEARN being a doctor, because it really does help us find a lot of useful information. It also teaches an important skill: to differentiate between useful and not useful, evidence-based and without-evidence information.
However it can never replace a doctor’s brain for diagnosis. Many diseases have similar symptoms, with only subtle details differing. Even trusted websites such as emedicine.com have disclaimers stating that you should never use it as a diagnostic tool.
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