Concerned about health? Know it from the experts not the forwarded messages
By: Yogesh Kumar
Tags: Healthcare, Patient Engagement, Fake News, Healthcare Professionals, Patient Experience

Just like all that glitters is not gold, not all you see on the internet holds true. With the rise in technology and easy access to the internet, information on anything and everything has climbed a cliff. Though this is a good side for mankind, there is another sad side to it too- The wild spread of misleading information!

Fake news or erratic forwarded messages is not just about politics. Health is the most trapped segment with such spurious information. Advices on well-being are widely dispensed via social media, especially whatsapp; unfortunately people tend to follow these without cross-checking and thus putting their health at risk.

Being concerned about health is the best thing but believing on forwarded messages & not the experts can turn out to be life threatening for your well-being. HealthCare professionals are experts because of the knowledge & experience in their respective domains. If everything you get online via social media and messages would be so authentic, then there wouldn’t be students studying so hard for years in the medical courses & holding an authentic degree to practice medicine.

Why is asking the experts advice important for health?

Whenever you are in a big mix-up or a problem and the issue is important to solve immediately, be it in your workplace, or family or friends; where do you seek the solution? You obviously go to people who are either experienced in the same topic or hold profound knowledge about it, right? That’s called expert advice! In fact the best example of expert advice being so crucial is seen in ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’, the Indian Television Show where they provide expert advice as ‘lifeline’ to the contestants to save themselves when in doubt.

If a quiz like show apprehends the importance of expert advice, why to compromise over it when it comes to health? There are several quotes and sayings about health already. What is required is to implement those in our living. Stating one of them here-

‘Every human being is the author of his own health or disease’~ Buddha.

What does forwarded messages do to your health?

When it is about health, it becomes utmost crucial that whatever information is passed remains genuine and from the experts. Forwarded messages hardly hold any reliability as they are just spread on a click of a button without any fact-check. In fact, some people find it fun to create their own messages and watch them getting forwarded to so many.

In such a scenario, not only you put your health in danger but keeping this information in mind you might share it with others and bring them under risk too.

In recent times, the hazards of such forwarded messages were seen creating a panic during the early months of COVID-19 pandemic. Some of these are still under the same roof. As the coronavirus was new to science itself, people got a chance to invent their own way of cure to it and social media was flooded with such unchecked messages adding to the existing anxiety.

How to find a solution to this chaos?

Simple, ask the experts.

Nth Sense is a patient engagement platform which understands that communicating with the Healthcare professionals can become tough at times. Thus to bridge this gap and strengthen the healthcare system of the society, productive efforts are taken by Nth Sense.

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