Dad Delivers Baby With Help From Google December 20, 2009

It was the strangest headline this week. Let’s see a case study focusing on how to promote a device carefully and how to deliver false message about the use of online health information.

When Leroy Smith’s pregnant wife started going into labor, the desperate dad didn’t turn to the doctors, but to Google.

Unsure of what do when his wife, Emma Smith, began having contractions at their home, and fearing that the midwife wouldn’t arrive in time, the dad-to-be grabbed his Blackberry and Googled “how to deliver a baby.”

Leroy, a security guard, followed the step-by-step instructions he found on wikiHow, and successfully delivered his and his wife’s baby girl, Mahalia Merita Angela Smith.

First, people should contact online health information resources in severe situations only when there is no chance to get professional help. I saw myself how an operator could help deliver a baby by instructing the guy who made the call. I cannot imagine a situation where you cannot call professional help but can access WikiHow.