In comparison, there were 68 percent of doctors who say that they often read professional journals and 60 percent of doctors often consult with colleagues.
As many as 42 percent of doctors said they often get medical information from conferences and health fairs, and 42 percent said that they often get information from online health sites.
Doctors also ask Google to Treat Patients
The survey findings also noted that 63 percent of doctors to change the initial diagnosis based on new information are available online. About 90 percent of physicians think that the ease of access to online knowledge resources has improved their ability to provide care. On the other pohak, as much as 12 percent of doctors actually think the opposite.As reported by the HuffingtonPost, Thursday (03/11/2011), this survey included more than 300 doctors who become members of the American Medical Association. About half of the respondents were primary care physicians and the other half is a specialist such as a specialist radiology, emergency medicine, neurology, oncology and obstetrics or gynecology.
In 2006, British Medical Journal published a study showing that Google is a useful tool in the service of doctors, especially when it is difficult to diagnose a disease.
The researchers found that Google's accuracy in diagnosing the disease by 58 percent and acknowledges that the person doing the googling is also has a broad base of knowledge to know what to look for.
Wall Street Journal also commented on the results of the survey. "No one said Google and Yahoo do not show people a ton of useful information, just that it could be difficult to sort out the wheat from the chaff. But dokter can assess the quality of health information sought is better than the average person".
And of course the doctor is not the only one googling to health information. A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in the U.S. showed that 61 percent of Americans seek health-related information online.
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