Isabelle Diagnoses Your Health Symptoms Based on the Tools Doctors Use
Google is not the best place to search for your symptoms. Try Isabel instead, a powerful symptom checker based on a tool used by over 100 hospitals and doctors’ offices.
The site will ask you about your symptoms and then show you possible diagnoses, which can be filtered by the most common or most troubling conditions. Clicking on a condition will take you to resources such as Wikipedia to find out more (Wikipedia is one of the few medical sites that does not track you, and for your information, Isabel does not use tracking cookies either). The other sections of Isabel explain how to use this information and how to connect you with your doctor.
Isabel was created by a team of doctors and its database is deeper and more reliable than other symptom checkers:
The system has been thoroughly tested and more than 30 articles have been published in prestigious medical journals. It was one of three systems scoring over 90% in an industry survey conducted by KLAS, the leading US health IT systems rating agency.
While the site cannot replace a visit to a real doctor, it can help you get more information. (The site was launched after the founder’s daughter was diagnosed with an almost fatal misdiagnosis. In serious cases, such as Rita Wilson’s almost missed breast cancer diagnosis , it’s always a good idea to get a second or third opinion and learn as much as possible.)