{"id":101012,"date":"2016-09-06T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gerdtestpress.online\/?guid=bad078bf90dc45e1c03442b138986f30"},"modified":"2016-09-06T21:12:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T21:12:45","slug":"googling-our-medical-symptoms-is-making-us-sicker-software-cheating-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/2016\/09\/googling-our-medical-symptoms-is-making-us-sicker-software-cheating-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Macht uns das Googeln unserer medizinischen Symptome kr\u00e4nker - und ist Software \"Betrug an der Welt\"?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great read via QZ.com<\/a>\u00a0and Dr. Mary Aiken<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Every year, Americans spend at least $20 billion on unnecessary medical visits in the US. This is one of the drivers behind the spiraling cost of health care, which is predicted to soar to $5.5 trillion by 2024. The last thing you\u2019d imagine is that the internet would have anything to do with this…Most medical professionals aren\u2019t too happy about the self-diagnosis trend. It isn\u2019t simply a matter of loss of control or an undermining of their authority though online medical searches\u2014it can mess with the diagnostic process, because the results can suggest rare or morbid conditions to patients, which in turn can prompt the appearance of new \u201csymptoms.\u201d You search online for \u201csore throat,\u201d for instance, and find yourself engrossed and horrified by descriptions of esophageal cancer. Your anxiety escalates”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe web has the potential to increase anxieties of people who have little or no medical training,\u201d White and Horvitz concluded, \u201cespecially when web search is employed as a diagnostic procedure.\u201d Now, seven years later, even Google admits that \u201chealth content on the web can be difficult to navigate, and tends to lead people from mild symptoms to scary and unlikely conditions, which can cause unnecessary anxiety and stress…\u00a0It\u2019s time for medical ethics to migrate online. The question is: Can Dr. Google abide by one of the main tenets of the Hippocratic oath, which doctors swear to at the beginning of their medical practice? Primum non nocere\u2014\u201dFirst, do no harm<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Googling our medical symptoms is making us sicker<\/a><\/p>\n

Gerd comments: \u00a0in a way… maybe software isn't just eating the world… but also cheating it<\/em>, increasingly?<\/p>\n

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\"Das Internet hat das Potenzial, die \u00c4ngste von Menschen zu verst\u00e4rken, die keine oder nur eine geringe medizinische Ausbildung haben\", schlussfolgerten White und Horvitz, \"vor allem, wenn die Websuche als Diagnoseverfahren eingesetzt wird.\" Heute, sieben Jahre sp\u00e4ter, gibt sogar Google zu, dass \"Gesundheitsinhalte im Internet schwer zu navigieren sein k\u00f6nnen und dazu neigen, Menschen von leichten Symptomen zu be\u00e4ngstigenden und unwahrscheinlichen Zust\u00e4nden zu f\u00fchren, was unn\u00f6tige \u00c4ngste und Stress verursachen kann.\"<\/p>\n

Das Googeln unserer medizinischen Symptome macht uns kr\u00e4nker
https:\/\/qz.com\/773031\/googling-our-medical-symptoms-is-making-us-sicker\/<\/a>
\u00fcber Instapaper<\/div>\n

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