21 Wild Times a Patient Made a Correct Self-Diagnosis

While it’s generally inadvisable to diagnose yourself with an illness, health insurance is expensive and the emergency room is chaotic. And so, sometimes you have no choice but to fire up WebMD and have a downward mental spiral about the strange wart you discovered on your back. Your googling can even narrow down the options enough to shock the doctor on duty. 

One Redditor remembers when a patient came in with throat pain that tests couldn’t determine the cause of. After a while, the patient returned and said, “I think I might have Eagle syndrome,” which was a disorder the doctor had never even heard of. But sure enough, she was right. She underwent surgery and is now pain-free, all because she googled her way to a diagnosis. 

Other Redditors have revealed the self-diagnoses they’ve witnessed, and we really need more affordable healthcare in this country.