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Is Looking Up Your Health Symptoms Online A Good Idea?

Dr Helmy Haja Mydin, Consultant Respiratory Physician

01-Apr-21 14:00

Is Looking Up Your Health Symptoms Online A Good Idea?

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


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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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