You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.

I'm your host, Elise Hugh. We all have Googled our symptoms. A billion times a day, in fact.

But what happens when even a doctor, with 20 years of experience experience starts doubting his own treatment because of

what his Instagram feed is telling him. We're very willing to have this attitude of, why not try it?

What's the harm? You know, someone else had a good experience, so maybe we will too.

That's John White, a physician and the former chief medical officer of WebMD. In his talk,

he explores why we're so quick to trust online sources of information about our health and how you

can search your symptoms without spirally. These are powerful tools in terms of generative AI and

chat GPT and Google.

But they don't know your history.

They can't do a physical exam,

and in many ways, they're causing more confusion.

I want you to become informed.

I want you to become empowered.

But the challenge is, information isn't knowledge.

That's coming up after a short break.

And now our TED Talk of the day. It's human nature. We all have searched for symptoms that we might be having. Maybe it's a mole on our skin, a cough that we're experiencing, or a headache. And what happens?

After 10 minutes, we don't become more clear on what we'd be having.

We're more confused and more concerned.

So we're talking about joy.

But then how can we have joy when we're searching about our health and we're having

some of these challenges? And as I said, we all do it. You know, I used to come out and ask

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