worried well

I suspect they think I'm one of the worried well.

In family medicine we spend a lot of time looking after the worried well.

She is also frank about her prejudices, particularly toward the worried well.

The majority of my patients have benign conditions, or are the "worried well".

"Let the psychologists have the worried well who can take Prozac," he said.

To date, the courts have appeared unwilling to consider claims from the "worried well".

Often I am looking after the worried well.

The readers are patients - the worried well and the worried sick.

"Our primary purpose is to detect disease amongst the so-called worried well," he said.

These men aren't merely the "worried well," as the patronizing phrase would have it.

I am also typical of the worried well, and set great store by my cholesterol levels and other blood test results.

Leading researchers say doctors are wasting time on the 'worried well'

"The good news is (there are) fewer of the worried well," Bloomberg said on a weekly radio show.

Evidence is lacking to support widespread use of cholesterol-lowering drugs among the "worried well", a study has found.

The "majority" of those people are the "worried well" and are sent home, she added.

Those determined to be the "worried well," in hospital lingo, were reassured and sent home.

But in addition to that, we expect 10 times that number of worried well, and they will want access to those countermeasures.

Creighton is concerned that this trend represents a rise in operations on the "worried well".

Some of these young women will be the "worried well", fretting unnecessarily about a condition that is still rare in those under 50.

"We see that there is a group that is called the worried well.

At 800 words a chapter, there's something very satisfying in polishing off a whole story in-between the worried well.

Taking an aspirin a day to ward off heart attacks is ineffective for the "worried well" and can cause serious harm, a study has shown.

"Unfortunately, many patients taking aspirin represent the 'worried well' rather than individuals with a high risk of coronary artery disease."

Medical professionals have warned that online self-diagnosis can cause the worried well to fear the worst and creates “cybercondriacs”.

One big problem is what hospital staff calls the "worried well," patients whose fear of the flu is far more severe than their actual symptoms.