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Dr Sarmed Sami
Digestive Health UK
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Transcript
I'm a big advocate for patient education and online education. Some resources are very credible and contain accurate information. However, we are increasingly finding other resources that are perhaps not as credible and not as trusted. And if you speak with any clinician at the moment, we always have frequency patients who will come up and read about this condition or that test or this treatment and being led to thinking that this is the right thing for them. But when we actually ask questions and do evaluations we find often that is not the case. Perhaps they were offered the wrong diagnosis treatment. This has major implications for both the health of the population, the health of the patients with potentially harmful effects.