cyberchondriac

What do you think marks the line between being an informed patient, and being a "cyberchondriac?"

Don't be a cyberchondriac.

She is, however, a "cyberchondriac", a term that describes a growing number of otherwise rational internet users who, when they present their symptoms to "Dr Google", latch on to the worst "diagnosis" thrown back at them.

The wealth of medical symptom information now readily available online has inevitably contributed to the rise of the 'cyberchondriac'; those who spend hours attributing every ache and pain to a dramatic twist of health misfortune.