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Jane Bates Works in outpatients, Hampshire

Don’t judge the worried well, says Jane Bates

I Googled some symptoms recently and frightened myself half to death by the stack of differential diagnoses that popped up. Of course I am sensible and knowledgeable enough not to freak out (honest), but it made me understand how those with a tendency to anxiety are vulnerable to all this easily accessible information.

Nursing Standard. 29, 29, 26-27. doi: 10.7748/ns.29.29.26.s26

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