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Doctors Seeing a Rise In "Google-itis" 368

It's one of the fastest-growing health issues that doctors now face: "Google-itis." Everyone from concerned mothers to businessmen on their lunch break are typing in symptoms and coming up with rare diseases or just plain wrong information. Many doctors are bringing computers into examination rooms now so they can search along with patients to alleviate their fears. "I'm not looking for a relationship where the patient accepts my word as the gospel truth," says Dr. James Valek. "I just feel the Internet brings so much misinformation to the (exam) room that we have to fight through all that before we can get to the problem at hand."

Comment Re:Many waiting for Vista (Score 1) 317

You've got that backwards. Hardware sales drive Windows sales. The majority of Windows sales come from OEM preinstallations, which is why Vista adoption will be so slow in the mainstream market. I saw one analyst quoted many months ago guessing 38% Vista adoption by 2008. Just a guess, sure, but I wouldn't be surprised. Are we only talking consumers? What about all those corporate shops that are still running NT4? Those people who have already paid for Vista through SA? They'll need to go to Vista sooner or later and they'll need new machines to do it.

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