More than one-third of Canadians have turned to the internet for medical advice because they couldn’t access a doctor or other health professional, according to a new survey whose respondents also reported encountering a rising tide of health misinformation in their everyday lives.
“This is a double whammy that no other generation has had to experience,” said Joss Reimer, president of the Canadian Medical Association. “We’re seeing both a crisis of access to care along with this crisis of misinformation, and together, those create real life-and-death situations when people don’t have access to accurate health information.”
