Google Suggest and Healthcare

When you type a search query into Google's web search, a feature called Google Suggest will offer searches that other users have typed that are similar to the one you're typing. Sometimes, this can provide an eye-opening view of how the Internet — or at least, the people who search Google — feel about a particular topic.

For example, here are the Google suggested searches for "Doctors are..."


In case you were wondering — no, thousands are people aren't all searching for "doctors are sadists who like to play god and watch lesser people scream" because they necessarily feel that way — it's a quote from the movie Juno.

Here are some other similar searches from Google Suggest.

Nurses are:

• nurses are great
• nurses are angels
• nurses are mean
• nurses are heroes

Medicine is:

• medicine is keystone of the arch of socialism
• medicine is working but u.s. economy isn't healthy yet
• medicine is an art
• medicine is not candy

Hospitals are:

• hosptials are generally categorized as nonprofit for-profit or governmental
• hospitals are cold
• hospitals are challenged by competition for paying patients
• hospitals are dangerous

I am sick:

• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired
• I am sick in spanish
• I am sick of being fat
• I am sick of obama
• I am sick and tired hillary clinton
• I am sick all the time
• I am sick and bored

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