http://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/ Switched Comments for Americans Increasingly Becoming 'Cyberchondriacs,' Study Finds http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/Aug 7th 2010 6:56AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/Aug 7th 2010 7:54AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/Aug 7th 2010 8:17AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/Aug 7th 2010 8:38AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/Aug 7th 2010 8:56AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/Aug 7th 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/Aug 7th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/The internet is a reference, not a diagnosis.
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I've had health issues in the past decade; I'm sixty years old, and the doctors I've been able to see either barely understand English, or are such recent immigrants that they know nothing of the history of the United States in the past six decades since I was born, and so treat everything I say as a mystery or delusion.

Good luck, America; when most of your doctors just got off the jumbo jet from Delhi and Karachi. Good luck, when American medical schools close for lack of funding and qualified candidates, and the loss of guranteed government loans when the student loan bubble bursts. Good luck, when unknown tropical diseases start popping up like weeds, as the mass-migration from Central America and Africa accelerates. America; good luck and good health.]]>Aug 7th 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/Aug 10th 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/http://www.switched.com/2010/08/06/americans-increasingly-becoming-cyberchondriacs-study-finds/
What the medical community as a whole needs to understand is that the most important person in that examining room is the patient. A great doctor will PARTNER with that patient to combat the disease. We had a great oncologist who understands and practices this. That patient also has to understand everything that's going on as well. So, yeah, I use the internet to research conditions and diseases when I or one of my loved ones falls ill. And, it has always proved beneficial in consultations.

'nuf said.
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