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I try to do it sometimes because it's much faster. So far, most of my diseases were minor and didn't require a doctor's opinion. I found out that sometimes information from the Internet can be spot on, like opinions about which brand of a certain type of product is the best.
What is the role of the doctor when patients can self-diagnose using apps, gadgets or internet browsers?
Not all diseases can be easily diagnosed using the Internet. Doctors should always control what the patient is trying to do.
How do you think the future looks like for such appliances? Will they become popular and be used on a daily basis?
These devices can prove very convenient to people who have to check their health constantly. Not so much for those who have no major health issues.
I think the ability to self-diagnose is a wonderful development. Any normally intelligent person can quickly realise what is likely or not to be relevant. A patronizing attitude often adopted by medical professionals is not helpful. I have found like in any other profession there are skilled and fairly useless doctors. I see no harm in knowledge and perhaps this is a threat to the doctors monopoly on health issues.
2.What is the role of the doctor when patients can self-diagnose using apps, gadgets or internet browsers?
I think the doctor is still needed because all previously invented methods are only informatics methods that use scripts. Programs use a single path to diagnose the problem. The doctor has the experience, which no program or machine will never have. The application can only rely on the results of the study, and all that can be measured (for example, blood pressure). Your doctor may notice other aspects, the machine will not be able to see (for example, a reflex action)
3.How do you think the future looks like for such appliances? Will they become popular and be used on a daily basis?
I think that this application will not be difficult to use. Apple this year is going to present iWatch watch by which you can make biometric measurements of the body, and the iPhone will store this information and a nice way to present them to the user. For sure it will be a curiosity. Everyone likes the gadgets so my opinion will be a boom for such applications and gadgets
Still would be nice to know in advance, when cancer starts in our body, or some serious inflamation.
About your questions: I used to google, but I became paranoid, and stopped for ever. If something is wrong is for a doctor to say, not google.
I think that it's annoying for doctors to hear those "I know it all" patient. And if he/she are likethat, they don't treat them well, as we wouldn't such a person... so it's a bad thing....
Yes, I often do that. However I almost always go to the doctor afterwards or sometimes I just ask pharmacist for advice.
What is the role of the doctor when patients can self-diagnose using apps, gadgets or internet browsers?
Medical check made by doctor can’t be skipped. Even if we do right self diagnose we can’t get medicines without prescription or do test. However personally I don’t believe in such way of diagnosing diseases. I don’t say it is always wrong, but it is better to verify it with professional.
How do you think the future looks like for such appliances? Will they become popular and be used on a daily basis?
They will be more and more popular. These gadgets are easy to use and give us quick feedback as well as we don’t waste time in medical centre.
I do believe that such practices are very dumb. I think that searching or checking drugs on prescription with google is good but self-diagnosis... Most people do not have qualifications to do so.
What is the role of the doctor when patients can self-diagnose using apps, gadgets or internet browsers?
It is still important. I know that self-diagnosis in minor health treatments can help but it shouldn't allow patients to use only domestic or "application"-estic ways to cure themselves.
How do you think the future looks like for such appliances? Will they become popular and be used on a daily basis?
I hope that won't happen. I think that technology should be help but not solve our problems.
Do you self-diagnose using Google?
I think I do. If I feel some how ill I tend to self diagnose myself by looking up similar symptoms in google. I think that this make me more comftoble. Knowing what I am up against before I can see my doctor. Sometimes we have to wait a long time before this will be possible. Thats why it is a good idea to self diagnose ourself. However I do not think that this is a replacement for tradicional doctor`s examination.
What is the role of the doctor when patients can self-diagnose using apps, gadgets or internet browsers?
App will not guarantee you a hundred percentage correct diagnose. Even that I think apps are really cool and usefull, they are still very primitive and limited. Complex healt problem might be to difficult for them to diagnose.
How do you think the future looks like for such appliances? Will they become popular and be used on a daily basis?
It is very hard to say how the future will look like. Everything develops so rapidly that we can not say what will change. I am sure they will be widely used on a daily basis.
Role of doctors in case when people try to diagnose themself is to convince that internet can be wrong. It's can be difficult sometimes.
Mayby when to this apps will be add a pro equpment, then yes. bot for now most of them are just pice of rubble.
Sometimes I try to find a diagnosis on the Internet. In most cases coming out that I should have cancer or something worse. It induces in me a huge dose of uncertainty.
What is the role of the doctor when patients can self-diagnose using apps, gadgets or internet browsers?
The doctor is always professional. Undergone a long process of education and certainly he has a lot of experience. In my opinion we should always consult our problems with your doctor.
How do you think the future looks like for such appliances? Will they become popular and be used on a daily basis?
For sure. A couple of years and it will be standard. It must be just more professional and reliable.
Online consultation is what is already happening, and I think it's a great cause :)
Sometimes I ask google what is happening with me :D But I don’t think this is proper way.
What is the role of the doctor when patients can self-diagnose using apps, gadgets or internet browsers?
Role is simple – check if gadgets, browsers and other devices done their job well.
How do you think the future looks like for such appliances? Will they become popular and be used on a daily basis?
People are using devices such as pulsometers and blood-presure monitors every day so it is already daily basis…
If I can find something in google I already know the disease because you can find out only easy ones there. Its not a good idea to treat google as doctor.
What is the role of the doctor when patients can self-diagnose using apps, gadgets or internet browsers?
It will pass a long time before doctors could feel threaten. This kind of aplications
are at very low stage.
How do you think the future looks like for such appliances? Will they become popular and be used on a daily basis?
It would be great if we had machines like in movies Prometheus or Elisium.
Aplications will be more popular but someones bad interpretation of disease and death can
slow down its development.
Well I can do some startup research on my illness, but person which should tell is a doctor not a computer.
2) What is the role of the doctor when patients can self-diagnose using apps, gadgets or internet browsers?
Doctor should be that last line of diagnosis to confirm what was diagnosed and what treatment should be applied.
3) How do you think the future looks like for such appliances? Will they become popular and be used on a daily basis?
I thiknk that belivong ONLY on machines is a bad idea.
Talking to ithe people keeps us human and build society, if we kill it something bad will come...