Use of Technology in Medicine

Use of Technology in Medicine Nowadays, it seems like people can do everything on the internet, reading, shopping, arranging dates, trading stocks, communicating with others and even diagnosing their ailments. While, doctors are more professional on treat disease than patients themselves, not only because they have solid medical background, but also they understand well how to use technology to assists them by various tests. Authors of article “It’s Not a Tumor!” and “No! The One Word That Can Save Your Life” explain how patients and doctors are improperly and over using technology in medicine. Using technology has changed the way in which doctor treat patients, as well as the relationship between doctors and patients. In the article “It’s Not a Tumor! The Psychology Behind Cyberchondria”, the author Britt Peterson explains “cyberchondria”, web-enabled hypochondria. People use the Internet to search medical information and diagnose on their own. This habit leads to anxiety of concerning their health status. When their symptoms partially same with a certain disease, they assume that they have this disease. The author compares people with cyberchondria to gamblers. Gamblers believe they will win more after they “see a pattern in a set of randomly generated wining”. The same thing, people with cyberchondria believe that they have the disease when they see the list of symptoms. However, cyberchondria is not always bad, because it makes people pay more attention on their health, ask doctors for help, and take good care of them.
Technology not only affects patients, but also has influence on doctor’s diagnosis and treatment. In the second article “No! The One Word That Can Save Your Life”, the author Sharon Beqley argues that too much medical tests and treatments are used, which is unnecessary and cost incredible large amount of money, even worse, many of these medical tests and treatment are rarely helpful or not helpful at all, or even make problem more