Google’s next product- Google Medicine?
By Paul
Would Google replace doctors?
“Doctors facing a patient with unusual symptoms could well be advised to use Google to try to pinpoint the cause, a study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) suggests.Australian doctors were given 26 real-life cases of individuals who had fallen sick with relatively rare disorders.
They were not told what diagnoses had been given in these case reports but did a Google search based on the symptoms that were presented.
Google returned the right diagnosis in 15 out of the 26 cases – an accuracy rate of 58 per cent.”