Healthline’s Symptom Search is Like Google for Your Misery
Healthline.com is offering a symptom search feature. It’s fairly straightforward. You enter your symptoms and it returns you a list of things you could have. Enter more and the list narrows.
For instance, I entered itchy eyes and then runny nose. It returned 3 results, one of which was allergic rhinitis. Spot-on for what I’ve got this morning. (Oh, joy!)
A word of warning here. These things are cool to get you in the ballpark knowledge-wise, but imbibe with salt. Keep in mind it may be the wrong ballpark. Your doctor hates this crap. If people were any good at self-diagnosis, (which they aren’t) they could have skipped all that school after all.
Interesting side note:
Entering “swollen anus” into the search box does not produce the avalanche of Pat Robertson references one would expect.
Symptom Search - Healthline.com
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1 opinion for Healthline’s Symptom Search is Like Google for Your Misery
pfbatt
Mar 21, 2007 at 6:05 am
Reminds me of my early days in health care and the first time I looked into a Merck manual for my headache. Talk about Zebras!
But the chapter on gas is still my favorite.
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