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by rue 3669 days ago
Looking up any symptoms at all on the web is pretty much the worst possible thing a health anxiety sufferer can do.

As it is, nearly any symptom you put in will bring up the possibility of cancer, so it’s all just noise.

Being able to connect disparate symptoms that the patients don’t connect themselves is a good thing.

Snooping on searches isn’t necessarily the greatest way of achieving that given all the privacy implications, but it may be reasonably effective.