Patients Misled By Internet Health Advice, Doctors Say

Although the internet has given anybody with a computer access to a seemingly limitless amount of information, it has also had a profound effect on clinical medicine--and not necessarily in a good way. Doctor's writing in the New England Journal of Medicine say that patients are often exposed to incorrect or poorly interpreted information on the internet that is fundamentally changing the "the core relationship between doctor and patient." While applauding the ability of patients to receive test results and communicate with their clinicians electronically – and to search for disease symptoms at numerous web sites – the authors suggest it is a journey no patient should undertake alone. read more

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