Nosocomephobia is the excessive fear of hospitals, from the Greek nosokomeion, hospital, and phobos, fear. Physician Marc Siegel of New York University Medical Center has said the fear is understandable because a hospital stay takes away a person's control over their own life, and former United States President Richard Nixon allegedly had an irrational fear of hospitals, reportedly refusing treatment for a blood clot in 1974 by saying that if he went into the hospital he would never come out alive.
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Type of Phenomenon Diagnostic ChapterAnxiety or Fear-Related Disorders 2 Sources
1. Nosocomephobia (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia Nosocomephobia lead paragraph (w-bbfill-psych-diag-0926, keyword classification against phenomenon-kind enum definitions, hand-checked)View the Source 2. ICD-11 Browser (WHO)
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