Trendspotting: Web Worriers
A Chicago emergency room doctor recently treated a woman who believed she had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The Internet told her so. What she actually had: the common cold. With eight in 10 Americans now logging on to suss out health information, this variety of self-diagnosis has garnered the nickname “cyberchondria”—fitting, as 90 percent of us acknowledge [...]




