Internet to find health information, I think that's absolutely true these days. I think statistics have shown that probable 60% of all adults in the US are online and looking up health information online is probably the third most common reason people go online after reading email and doing Google searches. Since the mid-1990s it's pretty much expected that patients are likely to be online whether they really tell you about that or not an exam room and do you find that this has changed how you practice medicine it probably does initially but as it's been going on for so many years now we've just kind of adapted it to made it easier in some ways for us to take care of patients because many of them come armed to visits with a lot of good information about what likely to be talking to them about. They've done some research online and that it makes my job almost easier to know that they have done some of the background work that they used to have to rely on the physician or the healthcare team to do sometimes. It can be a challenge to introduces certain challenges it's easy to find misinformation online. It can be hard even for someone who's pretty sophisticated at searching to try to understand whether a particular piece of information is relevant to their health condition whether it's taken out of context or not so the positives outweigh the negatives though that patients are doing in that's good to hear. There are websites that replace it you would recommend for patients to get started to find reliable health information. It helps to know what to look for first you have to first look at the type of website patients that probably the most reliable websites are those that are sponsored by governmental organizations or our medical centers or large medical institutions or professional societies and I usually try to steer my patients to those type of websites first rather than telling them to try to search something on Google because it's a lot harder to be able to filter. what you get through a search specific websites that are particularly helpful for cancer patients would be one would be cancer gov which is the National Cancer Institute another is called cancer.net which is from the American Society of Clinical Oncology which is a very good source of information.
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