Is Looking Up Your Health Symptoms Online A Good Idea?

The Bigger Picture · The Daily Digest · 1 Apr 2021 · 28 mins listen

Many of us have probably looked up our health symptoms online before, whether it's a mysterious rash or a cough that just won’t go away. But does it cause more harm than good?

Produced by:

Lim Sue Ann

Presented by:

Juliet Jacobs,Dashran Yohan,Hezril Asyraaf

Categories:

Health Policy,Diseases & Conditions,Mental Health,Healthy Living,Fitness,Medical Innovation and Technology,Social Issues

Tags:

The Bigger Picture,The Daily Digest,health symptoms online,internet,Google,googling symptoms,self-diagnosis,cyberchondria,hypochondria

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