Why Are Some Medical Students Hypochondriacs?

Side Effects Public Media

Published September 22, 2013 at 11:19 AM EDT

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You might that the more you know about how medicine works, the less likely you are to be a hypochondriac. Yet medical students are some of the most intense hypochondriacs around. Why? Jeremy Shere and Barron Lerner, M.D., explain this troubling trend.

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