Comments on: New finding: Cyberchondria frequently over-diagnosed http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/02/new-finding-cyberchondria-frequently-over-diagnosed/ Exploring How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tel http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/02/new-finding-cyberchondria-frequently-over-diagnosed/comment-page-1/#comment-246918 Tel Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:48:31 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/?p=2374#comment-246918 The other thing you find online are forums where all the people taking some particular drug all talk to one another about their experience and any side-effects they have noticed. Doctors and drug companies don't like that much either. The other thing you find online are forums where all the people taking some particular drug all talk to one another about their experience and any side-effects they have noticed.

Doctors and drug companies don’t like that much either.

]]> By: Tel http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/02/new-finding-cyberchondria-frequently-over-diagnosed/comment-page-1/#comment-246917 Tel Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:46:19 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/?p=2374#comment-246917 It's a fair point that modern Western medicine totally ignores small symptoms (even when those small symptoms are regularly recurrent and annoying). The best the doctors will do is tell you to take pain killers. Only when you are well and truly sick will a doctor start looking for the problem (by then there is usually an obvious problem that is easy to find, which may NOT have been the original cause). Once you are seriously sick, then they can ask for any money they like and you will probably pay. Jackpot time! With your car, if you get that little knocking sound or the slight change in "feel" of the steering you take it in to get a full service and they make a few small tweaks. If you ignore that and skip the service it costs thousands later on when the problem gets worse. Doctors could learn a lot from engineers and mechanics. There were guys offering "full body scans" and the medical establishment are trying to put them out of business because they find too many small things (like tiny lumps, or calcium build-up in the heart). Doctors don't like the idea of people keeping themselves well. It’s a fair point that modern Western medicine totally ignores small symptoms (even when those small symptoms are regularly recurrent and annoying). The best the doctors will do is tell you to take pain killers.

Only when you are well and truly sick will a doctor start looking for the problem (by then there is usually an obvious problem that is easy to find, which may NOT have been the original cause). Once you are seriously sick, then they can ask for any money they like and you will probably pay. Jackpot time!

With your car, if you get that little knocking sound or the slight change in “feel” of the steering you take it in to get a full service and they make a few small tweaks. If you ignore that and skip the service it costs thousands later on when the problem gets worse. Doctors could learn a lot from engineers and mechanics.

There were guys offering “full body scans” and the medical establishment are trying to put them out of business because they find too many small things (like tiny lumps, or calcium build-up in the heart). Doctors don’t like the idea of people keeping themselves well.

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