Primary care physicians: 7 tips to treat health anxiety
Before the Internet age, people with excessive and irrational worries about their health (we called them “hypochondriacs”) went to their doctors for reassurance. Today these patients still schedule appointment — often with exasperating frequency — with their primary care physicians when they’re concerned about an unusual lump or vague symptom. But most likely they’ll have first consulted WebMD or the Mayo Clinic website and come up with a differential diagnosis of their …
What I found most disturbing about the man’s arm was not the deep, stellate laceration on the underside of his biceps.
