What do doctors think about hypochondriacs?

Most doctors find treating hypochondriacs stressful and frustrating. With experience, doctors tend to sense whether something is seriously wrong, whether a patient has a significant illness, fairly early after several visits and they begin the process of ordering sophisticated testing such as specialized lab tests, CT scans, MRIs, and or endoscopies. read more

A hypochondriac on our schedule is a time and money sink. The ugly truth is that modern medicine doesn't reward those physicians -- like primary care doctors -- whose main work is to listen to and think deeply about patients and their ailments, whether they are physical or psychological. read more

Doctors will be very cold and dismissive at a hypochondriac in order to not fuel the fire. They want you to calm back down to your "self" where you're not freaking out, so they will deny everything and tell you that you're making shit up (sometimes verbatim). read more