The Danger of internet

Nowadays internet plays a major part in people's lives. With just a click, information is within grasp. Is it a good thing or is it not?

One thing for sure, self diagnosis by would be patients is a big no-no.

This has become an issue in the medical world when patients come to see doctors to argue with them that they know better; after reading an article from some website on google. Interestingly, they would argue with great conviction that their piece of information is better than the doctor's who has studied it for years.

Because of internet, people become experts on homebirths without any trained personnel attending. The result is, preventable deaths amongst mothers and babies increase. Because of internet, people refuse immunisation. The result is, polio is back. Measles is back. More cases are detected and more deaths are noted. Because of internet, people jeapordise their lives by trying traditional or homemade remedies that could prove to be poisonous. And because of internet, patients become 'experts' on their diseases and refuse for treatment from doctors whom they deem do not know much.

It is all because of internet that society is learning wrong things from the wrong people.