Australian medical researchers have concluded that doctors would be well-served by searching Google prior to making a tricky diagnosis — entering symptoms produced a correct diagnosis more than half the time.
They said doctors would get much better results than patients, who may not be as capable of accurately describing their symptoms or evaluating which search results were most reliable. The doctors concluded that: "In difficult diagnostic cases, it is often useful. Web-based search engines such as Google are becoming the latest tools in clinical medicine, and doctors in training need to become proficient in their use."
(via Consumerist)
