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Side Effects: They Googled It

Patients are mining Reddit and TikTok for symptom intel while you're not — and a small study calls it epistemic injustice. Different knowledge, mutually unrecognized. Maybe ask where they've been reading before you wave it off as anecdote.

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  • Kerri Miller

  • May 27, 2026

  • 6 min

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Side Effects: They Googled It

  • by Kerri Miller

  • May 27, 2026

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