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Sara M. Decided for once not to check Web MD
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doctor, doctors, patient, patients, surgery, consultation, gp, gps, self-diagnosis, self diagnosis, self-diagnoses, self diagnoses, self diagnosing, self-diagnosing, healthcare, surgeon, surgeons, expertise, expert, experts, consultant, consultants, patient-care, patient care, medical training, medical school, medical schools"I've been using the latest home tech and apps to monitor my health....And after feeding the results into some online medical sites I discovered I was dead!"
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patient, patients, doctor, gp, gps, consultation, wearable tech, wearable technology, wearable technologies, second opinion, second opinions, referral, self-diagnosis, self-diagnoses, self-diagnosing, self diagnoses, self diagnosing, self diagnosis, healthcare, app, apps, gadget, gadgets, gadgetry"Let's make a deal, doc. I'll stop diagnosing myself on the internet when you start making house calls again."
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doctor, doctors, gp, general practitioner, general practitioners, self diagnoses, diagnosing yourself, internet diagnosis, hypochondriac, hypochondria, hypochondriacs, house call, house calls, patient, patients, difficult patient, difficult patients, doctors office, doctors surgery, doctors surgeries"So I'm perfectly healthy? That's good but will I still be able to research symptoms online and panic?"
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doctor, doctors, doctors office, exam room, patient, patients, healthcare, physicians, examinations, symptoms, hypochondria, hypochondriacs, hypochondriac, medical paranoia, exam table, health, mental health, computers, internet, web, medical research, self diagnosis, self-diagnosis, self-diagnoses, self diagnoses'You might be right that your pain results from a misaligned Charkra...but just humour me and let's see if the broken leg has anything to do with it?'
"I googled my symptoms and downloaded the treatment to my tablet. All you have to do is follow this..."
Kim was beginning to wish she hadn't started down the self-diagnosis route
'I can't examine you, but your health insurance does allow you access to a self-diagnosing website.'
"Doc, I don't have just a second opinion, I have 143 Facebook friends saying you're wrong!"
'He's a very good doctor, and I trust him, but I must confess that I always double check his diagnosis on Google.'
'We don't offer health insurance, but we do allow to Google your medical condition on your lunch hour and see what you find.'
'Our health plan consists of an hour of free web time to self-diagnose.'
"I've already consulted WebMD. I'm just here for a second opinion."
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"I looked up my symptoms on the Internet and it said I might get old!"
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self-diagnosis, self diagnosis, self-diagnoses, self diagnoses, medical website, medical websites, computer geek, computer geeks, symptom, symptoms, gp, gps, general practitioner, general practitioners, medical paranoia, hypochondriac, hypochondriacs, hypochondria, ageing, aging, ageing process, aging process"I've found a diagnosis on the internet...maybe I should get a second opinion from my doctor."
"Because we dismissed his original self-diagnosis, he wants to give us his second opinion."