It can work (Score 1)

After I talked to my dad on the phone one night, I googled the symptoms he had described to me that he was having. Congestive heart failure kept popping up as a result, so I called him back and made him go to the hospital. Sure enough, he was having congestive heart failure, and the doc was surprised he hadn't had a heart attack yet. He had to have a quintuple bypass and was in the hospital for weeks, but he probably wouldn't have gone in if I hadn't told him what I found online.