Mobile Phone Googler Saves His Premature Baby?
This is not an ad for Sprite, but it is an endorsement for a hot product: Google Search, with it's mobile phone capabilities. And the anecdote of the Amazing Google comes from Google itself.
According to Google's blog, new parents Howard and Melissa recently had to bring their little baby Andrew (left) to the Emergency room for a minor problem. But then, wrote Howard, "doctors discovered something major." The doctors observed that little Andrew's hemoglobin levels had dropped substantially—from 14 to 7—since he was born premature in July.
As the doctors were preparing to do an emergency blood transfusion, Howard Googled [hemoglobin "premature infant"] and immediately came up with an article from the American Academy of Family Physicians that indicated that such a hemoglobin drop is normal for premature babies—particularly twins!
Armed with this new info, the doctors checked up on the study and found that the baby's hemoglobin levels were indeed normal. And Google saves the day again. Perhaps Medical Schools should teach new docs to always Google first.
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