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- not comparableNot ailing.
Health services for the "nonailing" majority tended to be neglected.
2004, Robert J. Wilensky, Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds, page 962 more examples
Possibly the most curious of all human afflictions is that which does not afflict its victims, but victimizes the nonafflicted: the ailment whose sufferers are only the nonailing; the complaint of which only non-patients complain and are impatient.
1962, Fred V. Hein, Perspectives on Living: Readings for College Health Courses, page 58Moreover, within the nonailing families, the doctor's care index across the three plan- types is quite similar, while in the families with chronic illness it is substantially higher within the provider plans than in the other two types.
1972, Milton Irwin Roemer, Health Insurance Effects, page 37
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