It was nothing, I told myself, doubled over in pain half a block from my Brooklyn apartment. Maybe I bruised a rib. Maybe I couldn’t catch my breath because I was panicking about it being more serious ...

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As a general rule, one thing you should definitely not do is start typing random symptoms you might be experiencing into Google Search or, say, an AI chatbox. If you’re concerned that something might ...