"Bro, I am gonna die soon. Will miss you. Will miss all the moments of madness that we shared together." Ved spewed horrific poison at me in a modicum of a second.
I took some time to get back to the senses and asked "what's wrong Ved? Are you drunk? Or Shreya broke your heart. Again?"
"Bro, I had a bump in my neck for two months. Just consulted the doctor and he said that this is nothing but Cancer." Ved murmured weeping.
"Wait, what?" I felt the tremors under my
feet.
I recollected my senses and asked in a shaking tone "which Dr did you consult Ved? This can't be true brother."
"Everything's gonna finish now. I had plans with Shreya for life. I desperately wanted to become a pilot. All my dreams vanished in a moment. I wish I had consulted the Doctor earlier." He sobbed.
"Which doctor Ved?" I asked in a stern tone.
"Dr. Google" he responded.
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Pin-drop silence surmised for a few minutes.
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.
I just wanna bang the call in his face,
but couldn't control "you're the craziest and the most stupid person I
have met in my lifeeeeeee Veddddddd."
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10 days later.
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.
"You were absolutely right bro. I have realized it now. I shouldn't have consulted Dr. Google. It gave me some really serious trauma for an hour." Ved spoke in an apologetic tone.
It wasn't a Cancer tumor, but a protruding cyst caused due to a shave time cut. Ved's all fine now and having a good time with his girl.
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Horrific and formidable foot-in-mouth scenes like these keep occurring in the real lives of many people nowadays. Reason? Google. Yes, true to some extent. Let me clear it up in the very beginning that Google is not bad. In fact, it is THE PERFECT COMPANION for anyone and everyone out there, who has (most of the time) reliable solutions for all sorts of issues, and has answers to all questions, no matter how weird or difficult. I myself do turn to Google at least five to seven times a day, and it does help me in the best possible way.
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But one can't deny that Google often also
connects a simple fever with a deadly disease; a cyst with a cancer tumor; a
headache with a brain tumor, and many such absolutely opposite comparisons. If we dig into the subject's intricacies, we'll find that Google isn't the
culprit. It just provides space to millions and billions of websites out
there to put their content. So, all these 'terrible extremes' aren't promoted
by Google but by these ABC websites. Hence, blaming Google for any
'absurd/extreme results' won't be right. These websites deserve all the blame. Digging even
deeper, we'll come to find that even these websites don't deliberately put such
frivolous results, neither they are completely wrong. There always remains a
possibility that any modest indication may actually be a real symptom of some
deadly disease. So, where lies the solution? How to get over this perplexing
situation?
This brings us down to the following points that one must pay special attention to before knocking on Google's gate.
- One should be utmost
careful when looking for a health-related query on Google.
Before losing sleep over any random website's 'extreme'
outcome, one should consult a real medical practitioner in-person.
- Knocking on Google's door for
any 'objective' question/query gives a reliable answer most of the time.
But, one should pay double attention when looking for answers to some 'subjective' queries.
- The trustworthiness of
websites must be specially checked before taking their help, irrespective of objective/subjective form of queries.