13.05.2010 02:05 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Padres pitcher uses iPhone to self-diagnose appendicitis

Filed under: iPhoneYou're a young pitcher for the San Diego Padres, it's early in the morning, and you're not feeling good. In fact, you feel awful. So what do you do? Pick up your iPhone, point Safari at WebMD.com, punch in your symptoms, and self-diagnose yourself as having appendicitis. Next step? You call the team trainer at 3:15 AM, who does a quick examination and tells you to get to the hospital ASAP. A few hours later, your appendix is gone via a laparoscopic appendectomy, and you're on the DL for a month or so. It sounds like a script for a bad baseball movie, but it actually happened to Padres pitcher

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