Google Wants Your Medical Somatoformatic Info

It may have never occurred to you what the doctor's doing the whole time you're half-naked in a paper gown sitting on a paper sheet and reading the laminated diagram of the inner ear hanging on the wall, but there's a good chance he's looking up what you think he should know off the top of his head.

Things like: symptoms, latest treatment, drug interactions, discounts on car rentals, and how to deal with a teenage daughter.

Well, the first three mostly, among other complicated medical issues your tongue-depressor-counting self doesn't want to think about.

Google product manager and MD Roni Zeiger says keeping track of all the overlapping information can be a daunting task. This is why there are computer systems for medical informatics to help them out.

Zeiger says Google is looking to bring this information online. (So, when you're sitting there doing nothing, you can whip out your Blackberry and try to predict what the doc's going to say.)