Your phone may be smart, but your doctor still knows more than an app

Monday, October 10, 2016 - 14:51 in Health & Medicine

If you’re feeling sick and you want to know what’s wrong with you, there’s an app for that. But the diagnosis won’t be as accurate as the one you’d get from a doctor — not by a long shot. In a head-to-head comparison, real human physicians outperformed a collection of 23 symptom-checker apps and...

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