hypochondriacs

We all know people we classify as hypochondriacs: they spend all their time focusing on what’s wrong with them, even though nothing ever is and even though there’s no benefit, as when you check your blood pressure every hour.

You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008

We all know people we classify as hypochondriacs: they spend all their time focusing on what’s wrong with them, even though nothing ever is and even though there’s no benefit, as when you check your blood pressure every hour.

You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008

You think all union members are hypochondriacs or something?

Matthew Yglesias » Health Care’s “I’ve Got Mine” Problem 2010

Naturally, if Mr. Merriam is elected, his official cabinet will be composed of statesmen of similar character and ideals, just as Mahatma Sinclair must be expected to surround himself with a staff of political and social hypochondriacs like himself.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Shirley Temple and H.L. Mencken Hit Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

You think all union members are hypochondriacs or something?

Matthew Yglesias » Health Care’s “I’ve Got Mine” Problem 2010

But the dips and douches created their own virtuous circle; from Buxton to Royal Tunbridge Wells, and even at little Askern near Doncaster, fine architecture followed the hypochondriacs and now attracts wealthy buyers.

In praise of … spa towns | Editorial 2011

Naturally, if Mr. Merriam is elected, his official cabinet will be composed of statesmen of similar character and ideals, just as Mahatma Sinclair must be expected to surround himself with a staff of political and social hypochondriacs like himself.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Shirley Temple and H.L. Mencken Hit Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

It is highly biased by the people who go to doctors; the ill, the hypochondriacs and the elderly.

Health Care Is Next Frontier for Big Data Ben Rooney 2012

Naturally, if Mr. Merriam is elected, his official cabinet will be composed of statesmen of similar character and ideals, just as Mahatma Sinclair must be expected to surround himself with a staff of political and social hypochondriacs like himself.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Shirley Temple and H.L. Mencken Hit Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

But like yesteryear hypochondriacs who convinced themselves they had tuberculosis—then took themselves to sanitoriums where they got it—acting on a belief in decline ultimately produces decline.

Obama 'Retrenches'—America Retreats Bret Stephens 2012