How is Internet being used in health and medicine?

The internet is helpful in our health because there are a lots of advice that we can get here about our health issues. A lot of people browse the internet to find cure for their illnesses. Some also, finds advices on how to be slim or ways to prevent them from any kind of illnesses. People also nowadays, sometime don't go to clinics but instead they browse the internet for answers. There a lot of benefits we  can get here but if there are benefits there are also disadvantages we could get. Those answers from other sites are just coming from the internet users too. Before doing 'something' that comes from the internet related to our health, we should be really sure that these advices and information are safe or not.

Advantages we could get upon searching the internet is that we could get a lot of ideas and more knowledge about our health issues. Also, we could search herbal medicines  cures cough, fever and etc.. The internet also has the potential to give significant advantages to both health-care professionals and patients. Professionals could get a lot of ideas from the internet and they could formulate medicines to cure the illnesses of the people.

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Using internet make people lazy to go to clinics or hospitals. They may also gather wrong information about taking care of their health. Instead of being cured, it goes the other way around because of the wrong data  they get. So, we should be sure to the sites we are going to follow if that site was organized by a professional health-care.

For me, it is better to consult a doctor or go to the clinic if you need medicine or any problem about your health issues because you could assure your safety there. In the internet, there's no assurance if it's safety or not because 'anyone' could give wrong answers. W e don't know if it's right or wrong because we could only read the words on the screens. No proofs.