Doctor says

[grump]

"No need for me to come out to the house," the doctor said to Dorothy, "I know your ol' man Dennis is a chronic hypochondriac. He's not really sick, he just thinks he is."
A week later the doctor called the house to make sure his diagnosis had been correct. " hows our patient?" the doctor asked.
"Even worse," Dorothy bawled, "Now he thinks he's dead!"

[Alan Mclennan]