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- noun medicine Users of
medical orpsychiatric services who are notsuffering from anydiagnosable disease .
Etymologies
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Coined in 1970 by Sidney Garfield, founder of Kaiser Permanente.
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With so much conflicting advice available online, Burrows says it is no surprise that we are seeing a rise in the “worried well” – people with no physical symptoms who are overconcerned about their health.
The truth about nightshades: four online myths about potatoes, tomatoes and aubergines Lizzie Cernik 2023
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