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The sick complain of but one thing;
For healthy folk, it's everything.
This paradox discomforting
On “wellness”  leaves us wondering.

Perspective such by doctor held
Would host a certain wariness 
Toward the patient more replete
In voicing ailments to address.

Regardless ill or problem nil,
Beware the scope of medical eyes.
Technologies and will to find
Mean endless clues to scrutinize.

‘Tis better then to slightly curb
Elaborating tendencies 
That mention all and everything
And miss the forest for the trees.

Some docs have said, though tongue in cheek,
"There's never a  patient truly well;
They’re simply not “worked up” enough!"
It's not a tale we'd wish to tell.

So health is more than lack of ill,
And wellness means an attitude.
If best of life we wish to have,
The heart must favor healthitude.