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Beschreibung
When every hiccup sounds like the call of doom, each stomach pang hints at incipient cancer, and a headache means it's time to firm up your last will and testament, The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death. provides just the relief you need. Gene Weingarten has spent his whole life immersed in the eclectic details of bizarre symptoms, self-diagnosing every minor ache as a potentially deadly disease. Weingarten examines:

* The mind of a hypochondriac
* How your doctor can kill you
* Ulcers and other visceral fears
* The snaps, crackles, and pops of your body that spell disaster
* Things that can take an eye out
* Interpreting DocSpeak

Blending the neurotic anxieties of Woody Allen, the folksiness of Garrison Keillor, and the absurdist vision of Dave Barry, Gene Weingarten conjures up a hilarious prescription for the hypochondriac that lurks inside all of us.
When every hiccup sounds like the call of doom, each stomach pang hints at incipient cancer, and a headache means it's time to firm up your last will and testament, The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death. provides just the relief you need. Gene Weingarten has spent his whole life immersed in the eclectic details of bizarre symptoms, self-diagnosing every minor ache as a potentially deadly disease. Weingarten examines:

* The mind of a hypochondriac
* How your doctor can kill you
* Ulcers and other visceral fears
* The snaps, crackles, and pops of your body that spell disaster
* Things that can take an eye out
* Interpreting DocSpeak

Blending the neurotic anxieties of Woody Allen, the folksiness of Garrison Keillor, and the absurdist vision of Dave Barry, Gene Weingarten conjures up a hilarious prescription for the hypochondriac that lurks inside all of us.
Über den Autor
Gene Weingarten is a columnist at The Washington Post and previously worked at the Detroit Free Press, The National Law Journal and as editor of The Miami Herald's Tropic Magazine. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Humor, Comics & Cartoons
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780684856483
ISBN-10: 0684856484
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Weingarten, Gene
Hersteller: Fireside
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Gene Weingarten
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2001
Gewicht: 0,349 kg
Artikel-ID: 104792339