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Meet Web Hypochondriacs
prostoalex writes "When Jerome K. Jerome in 1889 described going to the British Museum to read medical encyclopedia and subsequently finding symptoms of almost all diseases in his body, he didn't realize the problem would exacerbate more than a century later. Web hypochondriacs are calling up doctors with requests for prescriptions for all sorts of diseases, since they discovered some similar symptoms on the Web. Wall Street Journal quotes a doctor: 'My impression is that people believe more of what they read than what I tell them. It seems that traditional Western medicine based on scientific evidence is less and less trusted by the general public. Meanwhile, some dubious theory from the Internet will be swallowed hook, line and sinker nine times out of 10.' "
Therein lies your problem. Perhaps if you wouldn't bother the doctor with such trivial symptoms, he would trreat you like an idiot.
Did you know that gullable isn't in the dictionary?
The more you know, the less you understand.
Stop reading between the line. I did not say that people beliving in gods are stupid. I did not even promote atheism. What I promoted is separating science from religion. When you are speaking science, then leave religion in the locker room. I might even say when you are doing religion do not misuse and bring science in churches.
Second frankly you are aware that for some people english is not even the first language, not even the second language, or not even the third language learnt ? I was self taught in english. So if on an international forum, grammar nazi like you dislike that much badly written englisch, I recommend you to go on another forum. Maybe like , Ye Olde Oxford Forum. Or just ignore the post, if you prefer to attack the form, ad hominem, instead of the content.
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