Word: hypochondriac
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...families are dysfunctional. But when your first foster parent tries to kill you, your second foster parent is an overzealous snake researcher, and your third foster parent is a hypochondriac, dysfunction suddenly takes on a whole new meaning...
...Amazing Couple. The experiment of The Trilogy is to have three films with interlocking stories—main characters in each one have brief appearances in the others—each made in a different genre. An Amazing Couple is the romantic comedy of the set, featuring a sensitive hypochondriac named Alain Costes and his wife, Cecile. Alain misunderstands a need for a minor operation as an indication that he is soon to die. Deciding to keep his wife from worry, he secretively visits doctor after doctor, arousing his wife’s suspicion that he is having an affair...
Your story "How To Heal a Hypochondriac" was unfair to many people who desperately visit doctor after doctor for some relief from their debilitating symptoms [HEALTH, Oct. 6]. When basic tests don't reveal anything, a patient is told there is nothing wrong and therefore it must be "all in your head." After doing my own research on the Internet, I learned that my problem has a name, fibromyalgia. Now that I am receiving proper treatment, I am doing better. True hypochondria must certainly be a problem, but as long as doctors label a patient a hypochondriac before ruling...
Most physicians tend to think of hypochondriacs as nuisances--patients they are just as happy to lose. But a few clinicians, like Barsky and Columbia University neuropsychiatrist Dr. Brian Fallon, have begun to take the condition more seriously. "It's not correct to say there's nothing wrong with a hypochondriac," Fallon asserts. "There is something wrong, but it's a disorder of thought, not of the body." And, as he points out, disorders of thought are neither imaginary nor untreatable...
...well attuned to the problem. "Things are improving," says Barsky, "but there's not a heck of a lot of education about hypochondria in medical school. We teach doctors that their job is to find disease and weed out those who are physically well. They have no time for hypochondriacs." It needn't take as much time as they think, though. "It's not hard to identify a hypochondriac," says Fallon, "if you have the right antenna out." And once a hypochondriac is identified and properly treated, no one is happier than his or her doctor...