The internet has allowed easy access to health- and disease-related information. Moreover, these online health sites provide probable diagnoses for specific symptoms, assisting people to self-treat. However, recent clinical findings have demonstrated that online self-diagnosis poses a risk of misleading information and false reassurance. Thus, the current article describes why self-diagnosis and reviewing doctors online is not a good idea.
Most people often search online healthcare sites to access health-related information and perform self-diagnosis by providing their symptoms as input and getting the results as diagnostic conclusions. However, clinical findings have suggested that dependence on online self-diagnostic sites has increased unnecessary visits with physicians as people experience confusion, uncertainty, and anxiety about the information retrieved from these websites. In…
