Sentences with phrase «hypochondriacs by»

I am a hypochondriac by nature and I've been convinced a couple of times a year that I'm dying of something — WebMD always convinces me I'm right — so it's nice to go to the doctor to have my fears assuaged.

I have been labeled a hypochondriac by many and had losses of relationships, been prescribed anti-depressants (that did absolutely nothing) by one doctor and told that there is nothing wrong with me by many others after having almost every test under the sun performed.

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Hypochondriac male Angelenos are buying up supplements with names like «Manimal» and «High T» by the bucket load.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

God's grace is my responsibility; and even then, at the end of my days — because I know how prone I am to love my disease, to like being sick, to enjoy being a spiritual hypochondriac — I must always remember that by my own decision I may refuse health.»

Perpetually on call for a household of detail - oriented hypochondriacs; crushed by constant, whimsical, impossible demands.

It was written by Robert Hooke, then a 30 - year - old hunchbacked, cantankerous, neurotic hypochondriac who was also a brilliant natural scientist, polymath and an original fellow of the society that published the book.

«More than 40 % of women eventually diagnosed with a serious autoimmune disease have basically been told by a doctor that they re just too concerned with their health or they re a hypochondriac,» says Virginia Ladd, founder and executive director of the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA).

Described — whatever this means — as a «25 - hour - a-day hypochondriac» by Warner copywriters, Jack is a Safeway manager plagued by insecurities.

After a long day at the Little Shop of Melancholy he trudges home to be greeted by his hypochondriac, alcoholic mother.

And not just because he was Canadian, a hypochondriac, and preoccupied by technology.

C24 Gallery is proud to present Hypochondriac, the first solo exhibition in the United States by Turkish artist Seçkin Pirim.

• Resolved an extremely complex problem concerning a patient who was ready to sue the hospital for malpractice, by delving deep into his records and determining his hypochondriac status • Collected payments from patients • Verified insurance information • Entered financial information into computerized billing systems • Reconciled daily cash reports • Followed up with insurance companies to ensure that outstanding payments were made on time • Organized and maintained filing systems and ensured that they are kept confidential at all times