[Web4lib] Study: Google Helps Diagnose Difficult Medical Cases

[Robert Sullivan]

<http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2006/11/09/hscout536019.html>

"The authors of the British Medical Journal paper chose 26
difficult-to-diagnose cases published in the New England Journal of
Medicine in 2005, then Googled three to five search terms from each
case. The people doing the searches did not know the correct
diagnosis."

"Google found the correct diagnosis in 15, or 58 percent, of the cases."

This article ends by referring people to Medline Plus for more medical
information.

-- 
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library