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Cyberchondriacs

25 March 2000

Everybody is terribly health conscious these days. Put this together with an
ever-increasing addiction to the Internet, and it’s no surprise that many people
are becoming cyberchondriacs. Family doctors are bracing themselves for an
epidemic of “IPO”—Internet Print Out fever. IPO sufferers search out
information on their aches and pains, print out details of their alleged
ailments and hand over reams of laser-printed Web pages to their befuddled
doctors to “prove” what is wrong with them. It can only get worse. New websites
pop up all the time promising sound, expert advice on all things medical. But
how do…

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