%0 Journal Article
%T When Imagination Becomes a Disease: Dealing With Hypochondriacal Patients in Clinical Practice
%J Archive of "The Ochsner Journal".
%D 2019
%R 10.31486/toj.18.0123
%X Hypochondriacal patients are always a challenge. They require an overabundance of physiciansĄŻ time; they are responsible for excessive healthcare dollars; they demand extensive and often unnecessary testing; they make repeated visits for negligible issues; they are in search of a new medication when previous medications did not help or had adverse side effects; and they are rarely satisfied when no definitive diagnosis or treatment is provided. They frequently require excessive telephone time with the physician and ancillary staff
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6584190/