Equity · Wednesday, September 30, 2026
The discussion touches on the 'WebMD effect,' where online health searches can lead to alarming self-diagnoses, contributing to a human psyche's insecurity about the unknown. This, combined with a global lack of emphasis on preventative care, highlights a societal challenge in how health information is perceived and utilized.
“And also, too, with healthcare data, there's it's so much information. And then I think when people look historically, like I'll call like the WebMD effect. You used to go on WebMD and it's like, right, like what your problem is, and it would say like, you have something like, you're terminal, like something kind of terrible.”
“I think there's a little bit of an insecurity with just the human psyche of the unknown.”