WebMD and Cyberchondria

Western medicine and increasingly modern styles of Acupuncture mislabeled as traditional Chinese medicine or TCM is based on symptom relief. Because the modern medical culture is based on a allopathic approach to medicine, it is no wonder then that the patient sees their symptoms as road maps to diagnosis.

In this advanced information age, it is both easy and distressing for patients to visit to an Internet "clinic" such as WebMD. Some patients will bring in hundreds of articles on their first visits to prove their own online diagnosis.

This focus on symptom diagnosis can lead the patient into increased anxiety over any minor problem and will probably diagnose drowsiness as chronic fatigue, anal itch as bowel cancer and a headache as a tumor.

The amount of misdiagnosis by MD's is staggering. Their diagnosis is a label that the patient uses as both a limitation and an excuse. The patient should never take a diagnosis on face value. Medicine and healing is not a exact science. It is important to remember, that iatrogenic illness (yes they actually call it that) or mistakes by MD's is the number one cause of death in the USA.

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Our projected statistic of 7.8 million iatrogenic deaths is more than all the casualties from wars that America has fought in its entire history.

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