Lisa Marie Presley: "I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time."
Kate Beckinsale: "I'm a hypochondriac, so the idea of botulism scares me. I'd probably be the one person who'd end up paralysed by Botox from the neck down."
Goodman Ace: "The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's."
Caskie Stinnett: "The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases."
Mason Cooley: "All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria."
Unattributed: The hypochondriac's epitaph: "NOW will you believe me?"
Unattributed: Hypochondria is the one disease I have not got.
Unattributed: "Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you are not a hypochondriac."
Jerome Groopman: "Some people believe that physicians dislike hypochondriacs so much because it is a sort of mirror to their own compartmentalized fears."
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