If the exam is clean except for the "popcorn," you have just saved someone from a year of existential dread. That is not a bad day at the office.

Your job isn't just to move a reflex hammer. Your job is to perform an using the only tools that work: objectivity, pattern recognition, and a few specific clinical maneuvers.

We all know what Google suggests. The "Big Bad Wolf" of neurology.

You walk into the exam room. The patient is young (30-50), otherwise healthy, and looks terrified. They have a story that sounds, on paper, like a neurological horror movie: "Muscles jumping all over my body, Doc. My eyelid twitched for a week. Now my calf has a drum solo every night. I Googled it."

The Setup: The Worried Well