I always like to say that the internet has turned us all into first year medical students – intrigued and armed with a glut of information, we scare the hell out of ourselves thinking we have everything from MS to a brain tumor when all we’re suffering from is stress and anxiety.
This is the very reason why we’ve built hellohealth.com – so that people can have doctors who meet them in person and online and “prescribe” links tailored to their individual patients. The information overload is often the same information licensed from a few companies but skinned differently. So people turn to the shadier side of the internet for health information looking for something specific to them.