It’s not unusual to have a hard time getting an accurate diagnosis when health issues or the source of symptoms are not clear cut. It can take months and a lot of out-of-pocket costs to find out what is wrong and what to do about it.

After submitting symptoms to the crowdsourcing site CrowdMed, the average case is solved by Crowdmed’s community of “medical detectives” in only 75 days!

http://medcitynews.com/2015/08/crowdsourcing-is-being-used-to-help-diagnose-those-patients-who-have-doctors-stumped/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=108bfca74d-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-108bfca74d-67836105