By Roadjunky, Posted Mar 03, 2007
 Go to the internet first before this guy. (Photo by flickr user aeu04117) |
One of the worst things about traveling is getting sick and not knowing what’s wrong with you. Besides, what you’re really after is a little attention.
One of the worst things about traveling is getting sick and not knowing what’s wrong with you. Your guidebook only lists the obvious, major diseases, you don’t want to pay the local doctors or end up in a third world hospital and there aren’t always any amateur homeopaths around to offer diagnosis.
Besides, what you’re really after is a little attention.
Help is at hand though for the traveling hypochondriac with an online diagnosis tool that allows you to enter your symptoms and then be presented with a truly terrifying list of possible maladies.
Then you can really aim for the sympathy of everyone at the hostel.
Thanks to Web Md for that one.
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