This weeks group presentation incorporated a video as well as a
case study to show us what reliable web sources look like and how to find them.
In their study, they described a scenario of a 60-year-old man, whom had just
come home from a walk and is now experiencing excessive sweating, fatigue,
trouble breathing and nausea. As apart of our small groups, we were asked to
search his symptoms online and see what sources we came across. The website I
first landed on was WebMD, which opened a page based on heart disease according
to the symptoms I typed into Google. This website I found did turn out to be
reliable according to the pointers this group had included in their
presentation. These pointers include the website having an “about us” tab, expert
authors, an email or number to contact them through, advertisements, funding
and up to date information. These are the reasons why I am sure the website I
chose for this study was highly reliable. After class, I decided to go back
onto this site to see what else it offered. I found it very interesting as I
saw that it incorporates a section that allows you to make your own health
folder. This is where you add any symptoms you are experiencing and then the
site gives you the possible conditions you may have relating to your entries. Everything stays in your folder, which you
can open up and look back on for reference. This site truly has so much to
offer, so be smart when self diagnosing yourself online and check out this
website!
My professor showed a video
to the class this week, in which a man explained the importance of how online
health information could save lives, including his. In his video, this man
explains his story of how he was cured of kidney cancer. There were a few web
sources this man described using in his search of symptoms. It was really neat
to find out that he had used the same WebMD site that I had just found in class
that week.
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