Abstract
"The Saving Grace of Hypochondria" is a personal essay describing my struggle to accept the fact of my cancer diagnosis.
Brad Buchanan is a retired English Professor and widely published writer. His medical memoir, Living with Graft-Versus-Host Disease, was published in 202. His most recent book of poetry, Chimera, appeared in 2023, and his first novel, Spy's Mate, is forthcoming in October 2025.
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Buchanan, Brad PhD
(2026)
"The Saving Grace of Hypochondria,"
Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine: Vol. 11:
Iss.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol11/iss1/9