More on being a cyberchondriac:
The young woman waiting to be examined by Dr. Minerva Santos in her Yorktown office was crying hysterically. “What is it?” Santos asked her. “What’s the matter?”
The woman told Santos that she had been up all night, sure that her abdominal pain was pancreatic cancer.
How did she reach that awful conclusion?
A consultation with Dr. Google.
An examination by Dr. Santos revealed the real illness -— constipation.
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