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A recent BMJ article, Googling for a diagnosis, and its press coverage, ruffled some feathers on lis-medical. But Phil Bradley correctly asks why most health librarians have been so reticent on the matter in public.
Googling for a diagnosis--use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study
Hangwi Tang, Jennifer Hwee Kwoon Ng
BMJ 2006:390036405, doi:10.1136/bmj.39003.640567.AE
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The BMJ recently published a paper written by a team of Australian doctors testing the use of Google as a diagnostic tool.
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