Google launched a new option in your browser so that people can enter the type of presenting symptoms and get a diagnosis, taking advantage of every 20 cybernetic searches are related to health, and 1 in 5 to symptoms different evils But how reliable are these results?
Idolina Escobar says she investigates daily the evils that lurk. “I’ll check there to see that symptoms have, and that I recommend.”
Idolina Escobar looking for symptoms in internet Photo: Cristina Londoño
With people like her in mind … Google Mobile App now includes the “symptoms” or symptoms, utility with detailed medical information, which according to the company was reviewed by experts from the World Health Organization, the school of medicine at Harvard University and Mayo Clinic among others.
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in its announcement, Google said it launched the application for informational purposes and not to give medical advice, for that recommends its users to consult with your doctor.
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While appreciating the well-informed patients, Dr. Juan Posada, family physician in San Jose, has mixed views on Internet search, “many of them are confused and fall into misdiagnoses” he said .
a small study led by Dr. Ateev Mehrotra and some of his associates at Harvard University showed that 1 in 3 users searching in internet symptoms obtained the correct diagnosis, compared with 80 and 90% of those who consulted with their doctors.
mistakes addition, Dr. Posada warns about today called “cyber-condríacos” who are obsessed by what they find on the network. “A patient who has no experience and just read without having it develop even cancer.”
Idolina says she’s one of them has since spent whole nights sleepless and even palpitations symptoms seek in network. “I have invented tumors, migraines, are not thus.” Your doctor says, diagnosed her with stress, one of the options that gave the Internet.
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