By skyforbes 
A patient delayed treatment after watching a video. By the time he came to me, it was almost too late.
One viral video. One false cure. One near-fatal delay.
He didn’t want to tell me where he’d heard it.
Just stared at the floor, then muttered something about an “herbal parasite cleanse” that supposedly cured stage IV cancer in three weeks.
I didn’t laugh.
By the time patients reach me, they’re already scared.
And when people are scared, they’ll try anything — especially if it comes wrapped in promise, testimonials, and a few thousand likes.
TikTok doesn’t wear a lab coat. But it speaks with confidence, accompanied by a ring light and music swelling in the background.
And somehow, that’s often enough to override the advice of someone who spent fifteen years studying medicine.
All it takes is one video — and a voice saying,
“Doctors won’t tell you this… but I will.”