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单词 worried well
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worried well
worried well n. (with the and plural agreement) people who are excessively and unnecessarily concerned about their physical or mental health, regarded as a class.
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1970 S. R. Garfield in Sci. Amer. Apr. 19/1 Customarily the patient decides when he needs care. This more or less educated decision by the patient creates a variable entry mix into medical care consisting of (1) the well, (2) the ‘worried well’, (3) the ‘early sick’ and (4) the sick.
1997 Times 17 Feb. 13 Mental health experts..have..nicknamed them the ‘worried well’—too disturbed to sail through life's challenges but too well to warrant medical treatment.
2011 Scand. Jrnl. Public Health 39 326 (title) Breast cancer screening: ‘reassuring’ the worried well?
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