On February 10, Google announced that it would enhance its search results on medical conditions:
We worked with a team of medical doctors (led by our own Dr. Kapil Parakh, M.D., MPH, Ph.D.) to carefully compile, curate, and review this information. All of the gathered facts represent real-life clinical knowledge from these doctors and high-quality medical sources across the web, and the information has been checked by medical doctors at Google and the Mayo Clinic for accuracy.
So what happens when we search for Prostate Cancer? We get the following list of procedures:
What heads up the list? Robotic surgery.
Observers want to know: Does this nonalphabetic list represent Mayo Clinic's view of the most likely, highest priority, or most recommended approach to this disease?
And why is watchful waiting, aka "monitoring of symptoms for change or improvement," which is so often recommended nowadays further down the page under "other treatments," as opposed to being placed above procedures? Is that Mayo's view, too?
I doubt it. So how did the list get organized, and who at Mayo approved it?
We worked with a team of medical doctors (led by our own Dr. Kapil Parakh, M.D., MPH, Ph.D.) to carefully compile, curate, and review this information. All of the gathered facts represent real-life clinical knowledge from these doctors and high-quality medical sources across the web, and the information has been checked by medical doctors at Google and the Mayo Clinic for accuracy.
So what happens when we search for Prostate Cancer? We get the following list of procedures:
What heads up the list? Robotic surgery.
Observers want to know: Does this nonalphabetic list represent Mayo Clinic's view of the most likely, highest priority, or most recommended approach to this disease?
And why is watchful waiting, aka "monitoring of symptoms for change or improvement," which is so often recommended nowadays further down the page under "other treatments," as opposed to being placed above procedures? Is that Mayo's view, too?
I doubt it. So how did the list get organized, and who at Mayo approved it?