Your doctor may be better than an online symptom checkers to diagnosing what’s wrong with you, but he or she still misdiagnoses cases 15% of the time, according to a report published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.Online symptom checkers are becoming more popular among consumers, so researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital tested whether trained physicians or online symptom checkers were more likely to accurately diagnose a clinical case.The researchers used 45 standardized patient cases to test the accuracy of 234 physicians against 23 symptom checkers, which are websites and apps …

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