Medical Googler or Cyberchondriac ?
January 24, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Computers, Health, Medicine, Misc., Oddities, Psychology, Technology
Cyberchondriac (sy bur KA WN dree ak) n.
- a person who imagines they have a particular disease because their symptoms match those listed on an Internet health site.
You’re spending an extraordinary amount of time on the internet seeking out information on medical conditions, digging yourself deeper and deeper in into the abyss.
Does that make you a medical googler or a cyberchondriac?
Here’s a clue – do you feel better or worse at the end of your search?
A medical googler, such as myself who seeks out medical information for the purpose of writing will feel great at the end of the …read more
