“Health is reportedly now the second most searched-for topic on the internet. But as we increasingly turn to computers rather than our GPs for diagnosis, a new trend has been identified by experts – cyberchondria.
If you are one of those people who frequently look up their symptoms online and then panic at the diagnosis – or, rather, “search results” – it’s possible that you are displaying all the hallmarks of a cyberchondriac.”
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Kate Whiting, The Press and Journal, 27 March 2010
