It's actually an even deeper problem that people self-diagnosing through Google, as diagnostic tools increase in sophistication and decrease in cost you can pot

It's actually an even deeper problem that people self-diagnosing through Google, as diagnostic tools increase in sophistication and decrease in cost you can potentially find "issues" that never existed before. Take CT scans: if you took a random sampling of people, gave them a CT scan and then had an ortho doc look at the result 30% of the scans would show an "abnormality", but almost none of the patients would end up actually needing spine surgery. Similarly with apnea, almost everyone has some sleep apnea, but not everyone needs a CPAP, etc.