http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/how-webmd-convinces-us-were-dying/2012/04/19/gIQA7v02ST_blog.html#comments
That article is both true and not true. I know both from experience.
It's true that many HAVE to 'diagnose themselves' in order to ask the right questions from a thoughtful doctor (who is admittedly very hard to find).
What the article omitted was it depends on how well a person searches, reads and understands what they find 'on the Internet'.
Read all the comments. Some are very interesting, especially the one about giving 'references'.
That article is both true and not true. I know both from experience.
It's true that many HAVE to 'diagnose themselves' in order to ask the right questions from a thoughtful doctor (who is admittedly very hard to find).
What the article omitted was it depends on how well a person searches, reads and understands what they find 'on the Internet'.
Read all the comments. Some are very interesting, especially the one about giving 'references'.
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