Internet diagnoses: Trust them or toss them?

It is natural to turn to Google for health concerns if you are already using it for just about everything else. But the consequences of using poor quality or misleading information are much greater than, say, choosing a movie to watch. I wrote about using the Internet for diagnosing an illness in the Lexington Minuteman, which also appeared in many other, mostly small town, newspapers. My primary goal is to help people improve their health literacy.