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November 15, 2006

Googling for a diagnosis

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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Posted by Tom Roper on November 15, 2006 at 01:18 PM in Librarianship & information science, Medicine | Permalink

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