Artifact #8:Health Online

Watching this video, I am not at all surprised that so many people look up their medical problems online. And in my opinion, it's okay to do that if it's not a serious medical condition. You might put in your symptoms to WebMD.com and get thirty different sicknesses that you could have and if you narrow it down to one and try to treat yourself for the wrong diagnosis, then something worse can possibly happen. On the other hand, I don't see anything wrong with  if you have a could or the flu and you look up your symptoms online because you can't get an appointment at the doctor. Next, the video talks about seeking medical advice through your cellphone. There is an App created by MentalWorkOut that has to deal with meditation. This meditation app is actually the best selling app right now. Then, they bring up social networks are helping patients because people are wanting to be around others with the same illness as them. The website patientslikeme.com. The patients that are one this site talk to people about what's going on and what medicine their on. The last thing that is brought up in the video is gaming. There's a game somewhat like space invaders, it's called Remission. Remission is designed for kids with cancer and it consits of a Nanonbot that is shooting Kemo Therapy in someone's body. Kids have had better outcomes with their cancer after playing this game. This game to me, it a great idea because it is letting kids that have a very serious problem, understand a little more about it. And it makes them want to fight it more than they did before.