I too am a self-diagnosed hypochondriac. I think I have pretty much every disease that comes up on WebMD's symptom chart. Luckily I have a mom with a medical background who I can call and hear her laughing on the other end of the phone every time I suggest some ridiculously impossible malady I believe I have. Funny thing, yesterday on NPR the host was interviewing a self-admitted hypochondriac who wrote a book on her disease and she was saying how there is a new form of the disease called cyberondria, which is defined as a person who looks up his/her symptoms on one of those websites more than 5 times a weeks or something like that. But, on the other hand, there was a hypochondriac caller who mentioned that although she has the disease which caused her to obsess over the possibility of having cancer, her disease also facilitated her catching a melanoma in its earliest stage. But seriously, I went to a new doctor recently who is highly praised by other doctors and friends. In fact, the first time I meet with her I thought she was excellent and recommended her to my friends. However, upon my second visit, when I came in for a common prescription, she acted as if I was imposing, gave me dangerously false information and sent me on my way none the better and, in fact, very much uninformed. I went on WebMD and discovered that the side effects of the particular drug she recommended were so common and horrible that it was considered a "unusual circumstance" drug or something like that. I decided to go to my family practice doctor who quickly clarified my confusion and spent over a half hour discussing my options and the medical definitions of everything, including some things I didn't care to know about. You should always double check your doctors!