A cyberchondriac wonders why doctors are resentful of internet health

It’s really up to the physicians to accept that internet health is here to stay:

Is it fanciful to suggest that the reason doctors are so resentful of the internet, and so suspicious of our ability to use it responsibly, is because it excludes them even further? Because it facilitates access to knowledge which, as little as a decade ago, was more or less their exclusive province?

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