ailments

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Most presidential check-up reports, though, contain details of mundane ailments: "Doctors removed a precancerous skin lesion from the tip of his nose", reads a New York Times report on Bill Clinton's annual checkup from 1996.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

Some local residents have long pressed leaders to act, saying that intrusive noise could worsen post-traumatic stress disorder and other ailments.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

Once indestructible, the greatest basketball player of his generation—a talent America has known since he was in high school—was suddenly sitting out games with ailments like sciatica and arthritis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

Earlier this season, James characterized his ailments as being simply “old.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

It wasn’t just that his ailments had all cleared up; or that he went to movies now, and baseball games.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen