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"Google 'aids doctors' diagnoses'"

Using Google, the internet search engine, can help doctors diagnose tricky cases, researchers have said.

A team of Australian doctors googled the symptoms of 26 cases for a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In 15 cases, the web search came up with the right diagnosis, the paper published on the British Medical Journal website reports.

The authors say Google can be a "useful aid", but UK experts said the internet was "no replacement" for doctors.

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You always hear in the news about people finding things doctors have missed out on by searching the internet themselves so I think this is a good idea as long as they know what they're doing.

Very_Metal wrote:
> blimey, i was expecting to get moaned at for that one, most
> women being hellbent on TRYING to be offended of course ;)
>
> hail to the `phim!

Must be the angel in me!

Seraphim wrote:
> Very_Metal wrote:
> Seraphim wrote:
> you`d think after having 2 others you`d KNOW what was up ;P
>
> heh lol :P

blimey, i was expecting to get moaned at for that one, most women being hellbent on TRYING to be offended of course ;)

hail to the `phim!

Seraphim wrote:
> lol, you really have it in for me lol

Absolutely, but in a nice way ;P

Very_Metal wrote:
> Seraphim wrote:
> you`d think after having 2 others you`d KNOW what was up ;P

heh lol :P

Corazon wrote:
> She's a woman, she dont know nuffin.
>
> * Keeps digging himself a hole *
>
> Wuv you really
>
> "That wont save you, Nick "

lol, you really have it in for me lol

She's a woman, she dont know nuffin.

* Keeps digging himself a hole *

Wuv you really

"That wont save you, Nick "

Seraphim wrote:
> Ive googled my symptoms ive had before as i didnt want to go to
> the docs. By the end of my search i was on my death bed!

you`d think after having 2 others you`d KNOW what was up ;P

Everpain wrote:
> Why the medical profession doesn't have its own network of
> searchable, reliable information, I don't know.

I thought it did. I know of the DSM or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. I'd imagine there is one for other problems as well.

Why the medical profession doesn't have its own network of searchable, reliable information, I don't know. The internet is not accurate, it contains anything anybody wants it to.

I could upload a page tomorrow that told the world how to diagnose some exotic form of cancer from symptoms as innocent as cold toes and and a bad hair day. I hate to think that some professional might expect that such a page would be consulting them on how to diagnose their genuinely ill patients.

I think really Google and the internet in general help doctors by giving them almost instant access to information they would have spent 15 minutes or so looking up in books.

It's just really a quicker way of finding information for them and helping them do their jobs more efficiently.