Googling or otherwise seeking
advice online for your medical
symptoms interpretation is dodgy
with wide variations in accuracy of
diagnosis an triage, according to
Harvard Medical School researchers.
Medical scientists tested 23 online
“symptom checkers” - run by brand
names such as the Mayo Clinic, the
American Academy of Pediatrics
and WebMD, as well as lesserknowns
such as Symptomate and
found that “as a whole they were
astonishingly inaccurate.”
Symptom checkers provided the
correct diagnosis first in only 34%
of cases, and within the first three
diagnoses only 51% of the time, the
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