About
Why does searching your symptoms online always leave you more frightened than before? As former chief medical officer of WebMD, physician John Whyte spent years believing more information meant better health — until he saw how too much of it was making people spiral. In a world of health influencers, algorithms and AI tools designed to keep you clicking, he reveals why clarity and context is a better prescription.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TEDxNashville
- Speaker
- John Whyte
- Year
- 2025
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Medicine and health, Teaching and learning
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
- TED gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed
More like this
TED
Talk
Do schools kill creativity?
Source's player
TED
Talk
The power of vulnerability
Source's player
TED
Talk
What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
Source's player
TED
Talk
The next outbreak? We're not ready
Source's player
TED
Talk
Grit: The power of passion and perseverance
Source's player
TED
Talk
How to make stress your friend
Source's player
TED
Talk
Questions no one knows the answers to
Source's player
TED
Talk
How I held my breath for 17 minutes
Source's player
TED
Talk
What is depression?
Source's player
TED
Talk
The happy secret to better work
Source's player
TED
Talk
How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed
Source's player
TED
Talk
Sleep is your superpower
Source's player