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Doctors Seeing a Rise In "Google-itis" 368

Posted by samzenpus from the sounds-like-rickets-to-me dept.
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:What history has taught us ... (Score 1) 262

by cbartley (#14167512) Attached to: Adobe Acquiring Macromedia on December 3, 2005
Adobe didn't have any choice about FreeHand, since Aldus didn't own it and the company that did (Altsys, note spelling) had a no-compete clause. As I recall, though, Adobe forced Aldus to revalue the deal after they learned they weren't going to get FreeHand as part of it, so presumably they originally intended to sell FreeHand alongside Illustrator, at least for a while.

Had the no-compete clause not been in effect, Adobe would proably still have had to divest FreeHand, since the FTC got involved -- see http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1995/12/aba.htm. This page actually implies that it was the FTC ruling rather than Altsys's contract that forced the issue, but I'm pretty sure that Altsys was already in the process of suing Aldus at the time.

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