The abc reports that “it is not just patients who are frantically plugging their symptoms into Google to see what disease they might have, Australian researchers say doctors are doing it too.Dr Hangwi Tang and Dr Jennifer Ng of the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane have reported their findings online in the British Medical Journal.Dr Tang says the study was driven by personal curiosity after noticing how patients and doctors alike were using Google to diagnose difficult cases”.

Doctors use Google to diagnose disease: study

The abc reports that “it is not just patients who are frantically plugging their symptoms into Google to see what disease they might have, Australian researchers say doctors are doing it too.Dr Hangwi Tang and Dr Jennifer Ng of the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane have reported their findings online in the British Medical Journal.Dr [...]