{"id":6974,"date":"2018-06-22T17:59:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/?p=6974"},"modified":"2018-06-22T18:34:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T18:34:25","slug":"online-symptom-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/22\/online-symptom-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Have online symptom checkers made your job as a physician harder or easier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robertglatter\/2016\/10\/13\/doctors-beat-online-symptom-checkers-new-study-finds\/#711346e12d44\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a> says that, &#8220;&#8230;at least one-third of persons living in the U.S. now routinely use symptom checkers for both routine and urgent conditions, including chest pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to a small study published in a research letter in <em>JAMA Internal Medicine<\/em> and discussed in an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/doctors-significantly-better-than-google-according-to-new-research_us_57fe4d59e4b05eff55809fd9\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a>, &#8220;Doctors are much better than symptom-checker programs at reaching a correct diagnosis, though the humans are not perfect and might benefit from using algorithms to supplement their skills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel about online symptom checkers and medical information obtained from the Internet? Take the survey below to weigh in with your opinion:<\/p>\n<p><script>(function(t,e,s,n){var o,a,c;t.SMCX=t.SMCX||[],e.getElementById(n)||(o=e.getElementsByTagName(s),a=o[o.length-1],c=e.createElement(s),c.type=\"text\/javascript\",c.async=!0,c.id=n,c.src=[\"https:\"===location.protocol?\"https:\/\/\":\"https:\/\/\",\"widget.surveymonkey.com\/collect\/website\/js\/tRaiETqnLgj758hTBazgd_2BW8dX_2F0FRIvJyDQ0adPOjtF1_2BZkbiOndK_2FC2Wnh8ZxN.js\"].join(\"\"),a.parentNode.insertBefore(c,a))})(window,document,\"script\",\"smcx-sdk\");<\/script>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes says that, &#8220;&#8230;at least one-third of persons living in the U.S. now routinely use symptom checkers for both routine and urgent conditions, including chest pain.&#8221; According to a small study published in a research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine and discussed in an article in The Huffington Post, &#8220;Doctors are much better than symptom-checker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}