Google Health Advisory Council is Formed Sans Medical Librarians

I'm not the first to post on this, but I'm officially joining the chorus of folks who are justifiably baffled that Google has formed their Google Health Advisory Council without including a single medical librarian. Maybe they think they don't need us because they have Dean Ornish? And, as Open Medicine points out, they don't include any nurses either. For that matter, I don't see any allied health professionals. It seems that Google has a limited perception of who has a stake in and extensive experience with providing health information to the public.

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Rachel from Women's Health News has this to say: "I want to know how a company trying to connect people to health information doesn’t bother to get a few medical librarians on board, given that’s our skillset, profession, and raison d’etre. It’s what we have master’s degrees in. It’s what we do every. single. day. Grrr. Bad Google. If you start a health advisory council and annoy the docs, nurses, and medlibs right away, how good a job have you done?"

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