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Why Are You Asking Reddit Instead of Calling Your Doctor
Reddit health communities answer medical questions strangers are too embarrassed to ask doctors. You notice something off with your vision. It's probably fine. Probably. But instead of calling your doctor, you describe the symptom to people you've never met. They had the same thing. They survived. You feel better without ever making an appointment. That spot is still there.
Reddit founders created hundreds of fake users when launching in 2005 because the empty site looked embarrassing. Vision problems now rank as the top medical question category. The pattern: wake up with symptoms, post to…
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