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Posted by WhiteCoat on May 6, 2008
This site got forwarded to me by a friend.
Very cool how you can type in a bunch of symptoms and have the program come up with a list of possible diagnoses.
Another addition to my “Links” page.
May 6, 2008 at 10:29 am
Google still seems easier…
May 6, 2008 at 10:57 am
Not really. I like this site.
Try entering “vomiting diarrhea elevated wbc abdominal cramps enlarged liver” on Google. You don’t come up with much.
Enter those same findings on the program and you get a list of the following possible diagnoses
17 possible diagnoses found
Infectious Disorders (Specific Agent)
o Hepatitis B
o Hepatitis, viral
o Hepatitis A
o Hepatitis C virus (non-A, non-B)
o Typhoid fever
o Hepatitis E virus
o Psittacosis/ornithosis
o Typhus, murine
Infected organ, Abscesses
o Infections
Neoplastic Disorders
o Carcinoid syndrome/Carcinoid metastatic
Metabolic, Storage Disorders
o Diabetes mellitus
Functional, Physiologic Variant Disorders
o Stress/Emotional/Physical
Reference to Organ System
o Mastocytosis, systemic
Poisoning (Specific Agent)
o Alcoholism, chronic
o Hepatitis, alcoholic
o Mushroom/Amanita Phalloides poisoning
o Phosphorous ingestion/poisoning
May 6, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Very nice, thanks for sharing. I’ve bookmarked this one and will play with it a bit when I have some time.
thanks!
May 6, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Some of these tools are somewhat useful, but require a lot of input and time from the user. I wonder how many people take advantage of them.
Here’s another free diagnosis tool like this one: http://www.diagnose-me.com
May 6, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Wow - this is fun! I typed in tired/exhausted/fatigue and got one hell of a list of possible causes ranging from head trauma to hookworm, exposure and leukemia!
What I’m really suffering from is dealing with idiots all day long - that doesn’t get covered in their diagnostics.
Pity - I think it’s pretty common.
May 6, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Very nice site. In addition to symptoms, they also cover labs, X-rays, MRI, etc differential diagnosis list.
May 7, 2008 at 6:12 am
for something a little more humorous try:
http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-mongering-engine.asp
May 7, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Hey, I need some help, here. I’m trying to diagnose someone’s problem, but I don’t know the words to enter into that website. What are the right terms for the following “symptoms”:
1. Can’t belch to expel gas from stomach - indigestion?
2. Gagging as a result of gas in stomach -
3. Spittle rapidly becoming really, really long and stringy - tenacious sputum?
4. Spittle rapidly returning to normal from the state described in #3
What are the medical terms for these, please?
May 12, 2008 at 9:24 am
Dr. Whitecoat, thanks for the help. I put that in there and got nothing useful. But it was worth a try.