False Alarm

A twinge becomes a tumor between one breath and the next. That is where health anxiety lives, and it is far more treatable than it feels from the inside.A skipped heartbeat becomes a cardiac event. A headache that lasts a day too long becomes the thing you read about at 2 a.m. in the blue light of a phone held six inches from your face. You have been to the doctor. The scans found nothing. You fel...