Hey Parents, Google Is Not a Pediatrician. DIY Diagnosis Is Dangerous
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You don’t have cancer. You don’t have radiation sickness. You have a cold and you need to step away from the Internet.
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Internet search engines are marvelously useful for a lot of things.
They can help you find recipes and directions and interesting facts. They’ve rendered obsolete almost all the skills my middle school librarian drilled into my skull decades ago. A quick Google search can tell you who won the Pulitzer for poetry in 1983, or if fate has justly rained down humiliating calamities on deserving ex-boyfriends.
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But please, don’t use it to investigate your symptoms.