{"id":807,"date":"2006-05-12T10:34:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2006\/05\/12\/worried-sick-on-the-web\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:49","slug":"worried-sick-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2006\/05\/12\/worried-sick-on-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Worried sick on the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?537\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Patients surfing obsessively for answers can fall prey to `cyberchondria&#8217; \u00e2\u20ac\u201d health anxiety made worse by a deluge of information<\/p>\n<p>When 37-year-old Toronto comedian Gerry Dee had a series of headaches, he decided to consult his family doctor. Some blood tests were ordered, and Dee didn&#8217;t think much about it until he returned home on a Friday to discover a voicemail from the doctor&#8217;s office, asking him to call back &#8220;as soon as possible.&#8221;By the time he got the message the office had closed for the weekend, so Dee had two days on his hands to wonder and worry and surf the Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: Patients surfing obsessively for answers can fall prey to `cyberchondria&#8217; \u00e2\u20ac\u201d health anxiety made worse by a deluge of information When 37-year-old Toronto comedian Gerry Dee had a series of headaches, he decided to consult his family doctor. Some blood tests were ordered, and Dee didn&#8217;t think much about it until &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}