Am I the only one who finds Web MD profoundly unhelpful? The user interface is bad, the list of search results is often wildly off base, and it is hard to figure out how to get to the part of the page where you want to go.
But mostly, I take exception to its answer when I entered “chills and tight chest” into the symptom checker and its first guess was CHEST TUMOR.
THANK YOU! I can’t stand that website. Every time I think something has changed and I go there for advice, I feel like I’m in the middle of advertisement hell. I can’t figure out where the advice is actually hiding.
I hate WebMD too because they are SO HARD to navigate. Their search is USELESS and it is ridiculously difficult to just look up a medical condition or a symptom. I tried to look there to learn about thyroid problems after I found out my test came back abnormal, and it took me about 20 minutes to find anything even marginally useless. I don’t understand how it has become the premier medical website.
Okay, I am staying far far away from that one because I freak out enough without being told my flu is a CHEST TUMOR.
Good Lord.
Feel better regardless, and hopefully TheraFlu will work as opposed to chemo.
5 words: Paid for by big pharma.
You go in to a doctor who, because of system constraints, has three minutes to see you and you request whatever medicine you’ve already decided you need, based on the recommendations of everyone’s favorite self-diagnosis tool, Web MD. Doc writes script. Genentech gets to add another acrobat and ice sculpture to their Holiday Party.
(Not that business school further developed my consipracy theories. Nope. Not at all.)