So, the doctors now learned to google the Google to diagnose hard cases.
Doctors should consider using Google to search for information that might help them make accurate diagnoses, say researchers from Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. In fact, the researchers found Google to be a good source for 58% of difficult cases. (source)
To let you know, Google changed a lot of things in me, including my dependency to the physicians. I know, I need to talk to physicians from time to time to talk about my health specially that I have hypertension. But because of Google, instead of going to the Doctors clinic to ask some advices about my health condition, I google the Google on symptoms and diagnosis on certain illness that I experienced, and I am the one deciding what to do even on the medicines that I should take. Of course all through the help of Google.
I know, this is not good, but that’s how Google changed me.



February 27th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
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