The BMJ article on Googling for a diagnosis published last year brought attention to the use of the internet to help make the correct diagnosis. We have also noticed a trend that we have seen on AskDrWiki, which is use of the word "wiki" that accompanies a medical search query. We have had over 1400 queries this year in which a medical term was linked with the word wiki.
Such as "cardiac index wiki", "empiric trial wiki", "amyloidosis wiki", or "captopril wiki". Clearly medical students, nurses, and physicians are not only Googling for a diagnosis but they are also directing their search toward a wiki.
We hope that we can help make another tool for the physicians bag that can help diagnose difficult cases.
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This is a very cool idea. I am a nurse in an EP lab, and this is something I could see myself using frequently in my ongoing, ever-evolving quest for knowledge about cardiac electrophysiology. Keep up the good work!
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