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Internet Medical and Health Information
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86% of physicians use Internet to access health information “Of physicians who use the Internet for health information, 92% said they accessed it from their office, while 21% said they did so with a patient in the examination room. Meanwhile, 88% said they looked for health information online from home, while 59% reported doing so from a mobile device. Physicians who responded to the survey could give more than one answer about their Internet use.”
Googling children's health: reliability of medical advice on the internet. (Arch Dis Child. 2010)
Internet first choice for many women seeking medical information
Internet fuels bad self-diagnoses and 'cyberchondria' “"It’s important to stay up on health-related information … but because information on the Web is so unfathomably plentiful, so readily available, and so unsorted, it's easy for someone to jump to the conclusion that they have a brain tumor when in fact it’s just a sinus infection,” according to Judy Segal, professor of English at the University of British Columbia who works on the cultural studies of medicine. To complicate matters further, a lot of the medical information available for free online is actually accurate and reliable, experts say. "The problem is, though, that even when the information is reliable, our ability to know what to do with it isn’t," Segal told MyHealthNewsDaily. "Medical problems are often complicated, and someone without a medical background may jump to false conclusions." “
Is Medical Advice on the Internet Reliable?
Medicine 2.0: Taking Your Health Into Your Own Hands
More than half of Americans use Internet for health “"Among adults aged 18-64, women were more likely than men to look up health information on the Internet (58 percent versus 43 percent) and were also more likely to use online chat groups to learn about health topics (4 percent versus 2.5 percent)."”
People Still Trust Their Doctors Rather Than the Internet “By a large margin, people take their health questions to the Internet first, performing their own research. Then they take that information to their doctor for discussion.”
When Patients Meet Online, Are There Side Effects?
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