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He writes: "Every day I see more and more people coming in claiming they have trouble paying attention and diagnosing themselves with ADHD.
Medical accuracy, however, is of paramount importance: House enjoys a vast worldwide audience, and nobody on the production team wants to risk viewers diagnosing themselves with ailments that don't exist, or dabbling in self-administered treatments inspired by the show that might cause them further damage.
They insist on diagnosing themselves using information found on the Internet.
Three patients reported diagnosing themselves by means of self-directed searching for medical information on the internet.
Few who know the military culture think, as Dr. Seligman implies, that the problem with PTSD is that there are too many military personnel diagnosing themselves with PTSD.
Though instead of church leaders diagnosing people as possessed by demons, priests today are inundated by people diagnosing themselves, and insisting on being given an exorcism.
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Denis Leary responds to criticism of a chapter on autism in his new book "Why We Suck": "The bulk of the chapter deals with grown men who are either self-diagnosing themselves with low-level offshoots of the disease or wishing they could as a way to explain their failed careers and troublesome progeny".
They also have to deal with patients, who diagnose themselves on the internet and just visit the doctor for confirmation of the research they have done.
Given the increased reasons for anxiety, it's not surprising that a large proportion of the population diagnose themselves as chronically miserable.
Last year was heralded as the year of DIY health – in 2012 patients looked increasingly to diagnose themselves through various websites and applications (apps).
Pharmaceutical companies devise new drugs for the conditions it defines, lawyers use it to sue doctors, ordinary people use it to diagnose themselves.
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