To be fair, if someone is overly anxious and neurotic about minor physical symptoms, to the point that the anxiety is making things worse, often the best thing a doctor can do is reassure them that they are fine, to stop worrying, and send them home. Taking those patients' physical symptoms too seriously may be the worst thing to do. I can see that it must be hard for doctors, especially if they only really have about 12 minutes to make a determination...
GordonS|6 years ago
But I'm not talking about cases like that, I'm talking about patients behaving perfectly rationally, but insistently.