#295: valetudinarian

3/30/2016

in her own shadow,
valetudinarian,
sun's contrarian

Are hypochondriacs — or valetudinarians — really helped or just enabled by the Internet?

An excess of information makes self care difficult at best. Overmedication, unnecessary prescriptions, unneeded surgeries, dangerous hospitals and a pervasively profit-above-all-else "health care" system makes the decision to take charge of your own health attractive... but at what costs? It's an opportunity for solutioneering.

DEFINITION of this 7-syllable noun:

a person who is excessively concerned about his or her poor health or ailments.
an invalid.
in poor health; sickly; invalid.

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