by Carolyn Thomas   ♥   @HeartSisters 

Remember that unfortunate “Don’t Google It!“ campaign a few years back in which the Belgian government sought to warn patients against seeking health info online? Three of the (many) assumptions in that offensive campaign included:

• patients are stupid
• patients are not already online seeking input on all kinds of daily questions, big and small
• all patients behave the same way (e.g. like hysterical hypochondriacs)
  

Too bad the creators of this campaign weren’t familiar with the results of an interesting study that challenged those assumptions.      .  Continue reading “Four ways we use online info to make healthcare decisions” →