Medgle for Your Symptoms

Check out an interesting site called Medgle. I met the CEO at an industry event recently and he asked me to try it out. It reminds me of a lighweight version of the CDs that SilverPlatter put out years ago (early nineties), which they sold to physicians and medical institutions by category, dangerous for anyone who is addicted to 'results.'

Essentially it is a personalized medical search engine where anyone can type in a symptom or series of symptoms, add your age and answers to a few basic questions, such as whether you smoke or not, and voila, it pulls up the likely scenarios in order of likelihood.

Even though it is designed to be used for informational purposes only, it has the potential to have an opposite effect for people who avoid doctor visits, i.e., if people jump to the wrong conclusion early or don't follow up on something because the engine brought back a less severe result than what may be real. That said, it is an interesting concept and could certainly prove to be a useful search tool.