Norwich has been crowned with a dubious honour: people living in the city are the most likely in the UK to jump to the worst conclusions after Googling their health symptoms.
Most of us do it – if not for ourselves then for someone we love: we Google health symptoms and self-diagnose before we decide whether or not to see a doctor.
Are you guilty of arriving for a doctor’s appointment pre-prepared with a list of possible reasons for your ailment?
Do you self-diagnose in order to avoid a trip to your surgery? Or, like 37 per cent of people in Norwich, do you immediately assume the worst once you’ve spent an afternoon consulting Doctor Google?
(Guilty as charged).
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Picture the scene: you’ve been aware all day of a persistent twitch in your eye – at first it’s really irritating, then it’s slightly worrying and by the evening you’re convinced that something must be really, really wrong.
As you begin to scroll through the countless thousands…
— to www.edp24.co.uk
