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People Googling their symptoms and treatments undoubtedly does cause anxiety and correcting mistaken impressions does cost clinical time. There is a middle road
by lostlogin 3y ago
People Googling their symptoms and treatments undoubtedly does cause anxiety and correcting mistaken impressions does cost clinical time. There is a middle road here somewhere - we just have to find it, or accept the costs that come with having more tools.
- ekianjo 3y agoThere is anxiety because information is locked away by companies and regulators. They do zero efforts to help the public understand anything.
- JimtheCoder 3y ago"They do zero efforts to help the public understand anything." To be fair, with complex diseases, the experts don't even understand them fully... Trying to explain something super complex with incomplete knowledge to most humans, who often don't have even a basic understanding of how biological systems work, seems like a bad idea...
- ekianjo 3y agoJust explain what we know and dont know. People will become a lot more charitable when you do the effort.