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John Whyte

πŸ‘€ Speaker
158 total appearances

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TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

And she said, I read it online.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

And I thought it wouldn't hurt.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

But it did.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

And that's the challenge.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

Remember the phrase hypochondriac?

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

People that have symptoms and every symptom is always the most serious.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

Well, now we have this phrase, you might have heard it, cyber conjure act, right?

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

You go online.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

I always feel cyber conjure acts should be like crime solvers because they look at every detail.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

Everything is magnified and it's always the worst case scenario.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

My 12 year old is a little bit of a cyber conjure act.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

So the summer, he had a bit of a blister on his foot because he needed these Kobe cleats that were too big for him, but he insisted he needed them, and he developed a blister.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

It wasn't healing after a couple days.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

It started to look a little infectious, and my wife took him to urgent care.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

They cultured it.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

They gave him an antibiotic.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

They came home that evening and I said, you know, how did it go?

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

And he says to me, you know, it could be MRSA.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

And I thought, hmm, that's pretty clever for a 12-year-old, but MRSA's still kind of unusual.

TED Talks Daily
How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

And he said, and this antibiotic doesn't cover it.