Hyper-chondriac

"I'm a hyper-chondriac. My prescription? Whatever you've got. And quickly, please. I'm in a hurry." With these words, journalist Frazer strikes the keynote for his quixotic quest for total wellness--a seemingly paradoxical goal for a young man who doesn't smoke, rarely drinks and never misses an opportunity to floss. Chronicling his relentless search for inner peace, Frazer takes readers on a guided tour of his dysfunctional childhood, marked by an extraordinary ability to contract a new disease almost every month, a disturbing obsession with bodybuilding and a veritable sampler platter of…