By Cottage Health | December 25, 2019 | 12:05 p.m.

Is the Internet your first source to check when researching health information? If so, youre not alone.

A recent survey, conducted by United HealthCare, found this was the case for 20 percent of survey respondents. With so much information at our fingertips, it can be hard to know if your search results come from reliable sources.

Brittany Haliani, manager of SAGE Medical Library at Cottage Health, covers this very topic in her Fact or Fiction presentation in which she discusses:

Tools to access authoritative health websites

How to see if your physician is board certified

How to look up your physicians medical license

How to evaluate health information shared on social media

How to access complementary and alternative medicine websites

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