The diagnoses that people make to themselves using the Internet are often wrong.
A survey of more than 2,000 US citizens showed that people willingly climb the Internet in the hope of finding out what the symptoms found in them indicate. Communication with "Dr. Google" (Dr Google), as such "consultations" are called in the United States, led to the fact that more than 40 percent of those surveyed found themselves with a serious illness, which in fact did not exist. This was shown by examinations carried out, as they say, live - in real clinics.
Three quarters of those surveyed are turning to the Internet to reassure themselves. But in the end, frightened by the probable diagnosis, they worried more than ever.
On average, according to the collected data, diagnoses gleaned from the Internet turn out to be incorrect 60 percent of the time.
Chances are you will die from some typo on the internet tip.
In Russia, citizens will probably turn to "Doctor Yandex", but it is obvious that with the same success as the Americans. Doctor Yandex is no better than Dr Google. Or Dr. Wikipedia. Or even "professors Big Russian Encyclopedia." In terms of symptom analysis, of course.
Americans cite three main reasons for the increased interest in self-diagnosis and self-medication. This is a lack of trust in the healthcare system, the high cost of paid medical services, and a lack of time for patients who would like to get tested faster, get medicines and get treatment. How many people have died consuming drugs that they essentially prescribed for themselves, the researchers do not report. But they say that 65 percent of Dr. Google are harming themselves in one way or another.
The survey revealing the "painful" Internet addiction was conducted by OnePoll at the request of LetsGetChecked, reports the Daily Mail. To the credit of Americans, he showed that there are still more reasonable ones among them than bad ones - although not by many: first of all, 51 percent of the respondents turn to real doctors.
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QUOTE FROM THE CLASSIC
History repeats itself
The current situation in the 21st century is by no means new. It's just that people are very curious, and also suspicious. In this sense, we - the present - are no different from our ancestors. This is evidenced by a line from Jerome K. Jerome's unforgettable novel Three Men in a Boat, Not Considering a Dog, written at the end of the nineteenth century:
“One day I went to the British Museum library to inquire about a remedy for a trifling disease I had caught somewhere - hay fever, I think. I took the reference book and found everything I needed there, and then, out of nothing to do, I started leafing through the book, looking through what was said there about various other diseases. I had already forgotten what illness I plunged into before anything else - I only know that it was some kind of terrible scourge of the human race - and before I got to the middle of the list of "early symptoms", it became obvious that I had exactly this disease.
All three, apart from the dog, felt unwell. And this was very disturbing.
For several minutes I sat as if struck by thunder, then with indifference of despair I began to turn the pages further. I got to cholera, read about its symptoms and established that I have cholera, that it has been tormenting me for several months, and I had no idea about it. I became curious: what else am I sick with? I moved on to the dance of St. Vitus and found out, as expected, that I also suffered from it; then I became interested in this medical phenomenon and decided to understand it thoroughly. I started Alphabetically. I read about anemia - and I was convinced that I have it and that the exacerbation should come in two weeks. Bright's disease, as I was relieved to find out, was only mild, and if I had one, I could hope to live for a few more years. I had pneumonia with serious complications, and angina pectoris wasapparently congenital. So I conscientiously went through all the letters of the alphabet, and the only disease that I did not find in myself was childbirth fever …"
Agree, the Internet has nothing to do with it.
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY