timesonline.co.uk — .."about six months after I'd first lost my voice, I woke up wondering if my speech problem might be related in some way to my hand problem. So I typed “voice dystonia” into Google and up popped a link to a video of a person speaking in a damaged voice..I started using Google alerts to tell me whenever someone mentioned Dilbert, me, or anything
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wiihuckDec 23, 2008
definately
remeloxDec 23, 2008
Couldn't find toothpastekills.com. I'll just stick with WebMD.
troymccluresfDec 23, 2008
s**t, my doctor Googled something while I was the room. I actually kinda liked that about him. No pretenses. Unfortunately, looking back, he was dead wrong about everything I had the two times I saw him for a problem.
barackalypseDec 23, 2008
You would think with the hundreds of millions of dollars that Adams has amassed from Dilbert he could afford better medical help than using Google himself to look for it. If your doctor can't help you, its time to start looking for a new doctor.
barackalypseDec 23, 2008
I can see a day when a blood or tissue sample is taken and a computer diagnoses whatever virus or bacteria is causing the problem and simply looks up the cure in a database.
ohearnDec 24, 2008
"(A dugg Times article is again down for me -- surely they should be immune to the digg effect?)"Just wait until we digg a DOD server to death one day and are sudden classified as a terrorist organization.
alexsozeDec 25, 2008
Dilbert is skinnier in real life
meiranDec 30, 2008
There's the sensible answer I was looking for.I went to a doctor for ages that just told me to stop drinking soda and get more sleep. Finally I started looking up things so that I could have a more educated conversation and more accurately describe my symptoms. I might not have found the root of my problem yet, but at the same time the doctor actually listens now, and the specialists all agreed that I needed the tests he had been resisting before.The internet didn't diagnose me, but it helped me talk to my doctor better.