Doctors Seeing a Rise In "Google-itis"

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 17, 2010 @06:29AM from the sounds-like-rickets-to-me dept.

It's one of the fastest-growing health issues that doctors now face: "Google-itis." Everyone from concerned mothers to businessmen on their lunch break are typing in symptoms and coming up with rare diseases or just plain wrong information. Many doctors are bringing computers into examination rooms now so they can search along with patients to alleviate their fears. "I'm not looking for a relationship where the patient accepts my word as the gospel truth," says Dr. James Valek. "I just feel the Internet brings so much misinformation to the (exam) room that we have to fight through all that before we can get to the problem at hand."

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Hiring across the US by Anonymous Coward · 2010-05-17 06:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Well, the real hospitals need to manage data. I'm looking for people for my Hewlett-Packard team so I can get a bonus. It's telework, so you can be anywhere in the US. It's for server software for managing large sets of files. Email scybert42@binkmail.com with CV and cover letter.