Re: Re: self-diagnosis by search engine

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Lay people who research their own symptoms online will invariably either mis-diagnose themselves or believe they are about to die from whatever it is that's ailing them. Doctors, on the other hand, know what they're looking for and generally will follow up any preliminary diagnosis with confirmatory diagnostic tests.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

From: <rumjal@...>Subject: [Flu] Re: self-diagnosis by search engineFlu Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 5:31 AM

Of course there was a story some time ago that physicians made bettera diagnosis when they fed patient symptoms into Google.>> Microsoft Examines Causes of `Cyberchondria' By JOHN MARKOFF> A Microsoft study suggests that self-diagnosis by search engine leads> Web searchers to conclude the worst about what ails them.