Do You Worry About Creating a Nation of Hypochondriacs?

Do You Worry About Creating a Nation of Hypochondriacs? (0:51)

The more educated you are about your health the less you'll stress, says HealthMaker Doug Rosendale, MD, founder of CAIRNformatics. In this video, he explains that health knowledge should empower—not overwhelm.

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Hypochondriacs are people that are nervous about their health. The more educated you are about your health and you can trust the knowledge, the less you'll be nervous about it. And what we've discovered is if you read a textbook on medicine, you could find that nearly ever chapter you have symptom and you're going to die of some disease.

If you have a true information system and you can feed that information off of your healthcare team, your nurse will [xx] and you're concerned about things, you can allay your fears. And so I look forward to the day where knowledge is powerful but not so overwhelming that you create a lot of hypochondriacs, recreates more.