Cyberchondria

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday February 15, 2004 @10:52AM from the dr.-koop-to-the-rescue dept.

Makarand writes "According to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle the ever-expanding wealth of health information online is keeping hypochondriacs constantly worried. With websites devoted to every major and esoteric illness and search engines coming up with many disease possibilities when you type in a symptom, it is becoming very easy for the health-anxious to believe that they have a disease. Many continue poring through the easily available medical information even after their doctors have given them a clean bill of health."

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Re:I call bullshit. by The+Almighty+Dave · 2004-02-15 12:35 · Score: 0, Troll

Not only that, they call it practicing medicine for a reason. If it is anything more than a simple ailment, the patient is nothing more than a test subject. There is too much "Let's try this" going on. People have too much faith in science. We just don't know as much as we think we do.