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Is your first reaction when you are ill to look your symptoms up on Google? Do note that the search results you get are based on popularity and advertisements, rather than medical expertise. — AFP

Picture the scene: It’s Monday morning in an already crowded clinic and I’m seeing my first patient.

“Doctor, can you please help me? My husband has just come out of HKL (Hospital Kuala Lumpur). Heart failure, they said.

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