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Mary Wakefield

Is there any part of human life that hasn't been turned into a medical condition?

Cyberchondria has infected the US, and now it’s over here, too

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

When Greg, my old uni pal, came to stay from NYC he brought with him an extra bag for his pills: vitamins A, B, C, D, zinc, magnesium, selenium, ginseng. They decamped to the kitchen, the pills, and stood in rows beside the kettle awaiting their morning ritual. They were bigger than British versions, I noticed, and more violently coloured.

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