BFM 89.9

HIGHLIGHTS 
Podcast  >  Bigger Picture  >  The Daily Digest  >  Is Looking Up Your Health Symptoms Online A Good Idea?

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


This and more than 60,000 other podcasts in your hand. Download the all new BFM mobile app.

Categories:  Health PolicyDiseases & ConditionsMental HealthHealthy LivingFitnessMedical Innovation and TechnologySocial Issues

Tags:  The Bigger PictureThe Daily Digesthealth symptoms onlineinternetGooglegoogling symptomsself-diagnosiscyberchondriahypochondria





Play / Pause

Listen now : BFM 89.9 -- The Business Station

Today’s Shows



11:00 AM

Best of Enterprise

(REPEAT) We sit down with Shareen Ramli, founder of Siti Li Dining & Foodhall to discuss why she compares the trade to being a "stuntwoman", full of invisible bruises, and her mission to preserve the cosmopolitan heritage of Malay cuisine.

12:00 PM

Just For Kicks

(REPEAT) We react to the midweek European matches that saw Man City losing to Bodo/Glimt, as well as Spurs surviving a scare against Dortmund. Then, we preview Matchweek 23 of the English Premier League, including the big one - Arsenal hosting Man Utd at the Emirates.

1:00 PM

A Bit of Culture

(REPEAT) Kam, Vernon and Zan talk about the usage of AI, names and fictional biographies on another episode of A Bit of Culture.

2:00 PM

Ringgit & Sense

(REPEAT) Rajen Devadason, licensed financial planner talks about EPF's Retirement Income Adequacy framework.

2:30 PM

The Property Show

(REPEAT) Dato’ Ganesh Chinnappan, Managing Director of Raine & Horne International Zaki + Partners Sdn. Bhd., discusses the concept and reality of Build-to-Sell houses.

3:00 PM

Best of The Bigger Picture

(REPEAT) An expert shares the key problems with our urban planning & design today and key principles to build an equitable city for everyone.

4:00 PM

Best of Evening Edition

(REPEAT) We discuss urban planning and the upcoming Petaling Jaya Local Masterplan.

5:00 PM

BBC World Service

Roland Please uncovers the latest developments in the world of Earth Science, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans.