symCAT App Is Your Doctor On Call

Most of us have a custom of "googling" our symptoms when we are feeling sick, and more often that not the result circles down to Cancer or Malaria or a dreadful set of diseases, leaving us paranoid.  Two Johns Hopkins medical students with backgrounds in engineering, Craig Monsen and David Do have proposed an end to this unnecessary mania with an app called symCAT which diagnoses your symptoms for you and does a better job at it than Google search.

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symCAT is a symptom checker strictly designed for analyzing minor symptoms which would provide the user with a precise explanation, rendering them free of any serious misconception. The duo worked on the project last September after taking a leave from medical school and launched the product in early 2012.

symCAT requires you to answer a  a series of questions, such as your age, gender, how long you’ve been in pain and combination of symptoms. The more information it has, the more accurately the app performs. symCAT gathers the data for use from the Center for Disease Control’s records. A user can sign up for the app to have a personalized medical record made which can be used a reference when making a trip to the doctor's.

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