How IDIOT syndrome threatens value-based health care

The internet has made patients more informed. It has also made some patients more misled. A small but growing body of medical commentary has used the provocative label “internet-derived information obstruction treatment (IDIOT)” syndrome to describe what happens when people trust online medical content so blindly that they delay care, stop treatment, self-medicate, or resist

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How IDIOT syndrome threatens value-based health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

 

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