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...freshman UC rep decides he wants to tell a story about how he used to be a hypochondriac who always went to UHS, thinking he was sick even when he had no symptoms. The point of this revelation? We're all being metaphoric hypochondriacs about this UC stuff and should just chill...

Author: By Wendy H. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Live Blog: The UC Election Fiasco | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...realize I am at risk of carrying this analogy too far. Graduating is not exactly like an untreatable rash that sometimes spreads to the face. But it has felt like a process utterly outside of my control, and I have approached it with the wariness of a hypochondriac. The last four years of college have fed my desire to be in charge of my life, and perhaps it is a good thing now to be prodded in the other direction a little, to be forced to realize how much of the world happens to us, instead of the other...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin | Title: Breaking Out | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...there a naked man tottering about on the roof of the pleasant English country house? Why, for that matter, is a malevolent dwarf residing in a casket intended for someone else? Should we worry about the "pigment mutation" that is obsessing a hypochondriac guest? Do we really have to endure the spectacular incontinence of dear old Uncle Alfie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Very Lively Death at a Funeral | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

...This says nothing about the dysfunctions of Marion - who appears to be what used to be rather quaintly called a nymphomaniac - and Jack, who is a whining hypochondriac. The pair live in New York; have been on vacation in Venice, which has not exactly rekindled their former passion; and are stopping off in Paris to reclaim her overweight and sullen cat and for him to meet her family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris Not for Lovers | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

Home MRI A hypochondriac's dream. Fits in most living rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Working It | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

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