East Coast Drive: 'Do you Google your symptoms?'

East Coast Drive: 'Do you Google your symptoms?'

Are you guilty of self-diagnosing and using Google as your general practitioner?

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We are so engrossed in the digital era that we tend to rely on the internet for small things like shopping, socialising, learning new things or for that matter, and then bigger things such as finding a medicine for a quick relief. 

Read: Does a visit to the doctor give you anxiety?

Using the web as your lifesaver isn't the smartest thing in the world to do. As close to our fingertips as the information may be, it's not wise to act on it. 

East Coast Drive asked KZN for your thoughts on self-diagnosis.

Take a listen here.

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