Getting Medical Advice on the Web from Other Patients - US News and World Report: "Using the Web as a medical resource is hardly novel: More than 3 in 5 Americans say they have done so. Growing numbers, however, go online not just to do research but to share their medical stories with others—and to contribute, like Anderson, to 'crowd-sourced' sites where individuals can compare their symptoms and treatments with those of other members and of patients outside the group. It's 'like Netflix, but you can drill through to other renters' to see their favorites, find out what you have in common, and share opinions, says Jamie Heywood, cofounder of PatientsLikeMe.
This goes way beyond Google searches. PatientsLikeMe boasts that it's 'a new system of medicine by patients for patients.'"
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