When TikTok is Your Doctor

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Potato juice instead of antibiotics. Using beer in lieu of sunscreen. Shoving a garlic clove up your nose for sinus trouble. These are some of the remedies you might find on TikTok. The internet and quackery are not new concepts, but health advice – both good and bad – is a hot ticket item on social media platforms, especially for Gen Z. In fact, according to a recent study, a third of Gen Z-aged TikTok users trust that app more than their doctors. We look at what happens when TikTok is your doctor, and hear from you: have you used social media to diagnose an ailment or get medical advice? How did it go? Guests: Keren Landman, senior reporter covering public health, emerging infectious diseases, the health workforce, and health justice, Vox Jessica Malaty Rivera, science communicator and infectious disease epidemiologist; science communication lead, The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic; her social media feed came to prominence during the pandemic Dr. Jen Gunter, OB/GYN and pain medicine physician; author, "The Vagina Bible" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.3	Potato juice instead of antibiotics, using beer in lieu of sunscreen,
0:51.3	shoving a garlic clove up your nose for sinus trouble.
0:55.0	These are some of the remedies you might find on TikTok.
0:59.0	Internet quackery is not a new concept, but health advice, both good and bad, is a hot-ticket
1:04.0	item on platforms like TikTok. In fact, according to a recent study, a third of Gen Z-aged
1:09.0	users trust that app more than their doctors.
1:12.2	We look at what happens when TikTok is your doctor and hear from you.
1:15.8	Have you used social media to diagnose an ailment or get medical advice?
1:20.0	How'd that go for you?
1:21.2	So coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:35.6	In the days of yore, the worst thing you could do with any ailment or symptom would be to Google it.
1:41.4	Invariably, you'd end up on some website, at best, WebMD,
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