I think you don't account how little time doctors invest in a single patient, and how much expertise they've got compared to the net. And on the other hand, man

I think you don't account how little time doctors invest in a single patient, and how much expertise they've got compared to the net. And on the other hand, many patients have a lot of tenacity ,because those are large problems for them. But i agree that the ideal result from opening all this up, is the rise of medical expert systems advising patients, the same systems that have been blocked by doctors, some of it because of conservatism, some because they don't want to lose autonomy and let their job become automated with what that entails.There's no need to wait for watson, they already exist. And with the medical error rate around 15%, the fact that doctor only gather half the needed questions in their medical interview, etc. - i'm sure something like this could have pretty big effect on health.