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Should we take medical advice from the Internet?

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RayE · in General Health & Wellness
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Sometimes I come across health forums where the writers give different medical pieces of advice, but we're always advised to take only medical information from any medical professionals.

So I'm wondering if we should take the health information we see online. So should we take medical advice from the Internet?

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Other people will have same experiences as doctors just think they know everything and they may not know you're going through.

When I was going through cancer, it was good to get advice from others who went through it, or something similar. Especially when I had to have part of my tongue removed. There was a little trick to pass the swallow test that the doctors never told me, but that I learned from others online so I will never forget that.

It depends; sometimes the advice is useful, and sometimes it isn’t. I’d suggest filtering any advice you receive through an AI—I’ve found a lot of the advice I’ve gotten to be genuinely helpful. In fact, the AI ​​has been infinitely more useful to me than any advice from other people, whether online or in person, so I’d definitely recommend consulting with an AI.

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