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Video: Don’t use the internet as your doctor! Don’t use the internet as your doctor!
©2011 NPS
Run time: 0:58m (9.3 MB)
Video transcript
A lot of people will look up medications on the computer, and sometimes I think they have a bit too much information. I would suggest that you go and get diagnosed properly first by your doctor. Because often you may only have a few of the symptoms of a particular condition, which are causing you a problem — and it may not be exactly what is on the computer.
And I think if you have found out about a medication and you’re concerned about it, then you need to ring your doctor up and ask him, if it’s possible for you — when you’re on such and such a medication — ask him if it’s possible for you to get a particular symptom that worries you.
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Date published: 2011-01-24 00:00:00
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