When we look back on America in the first decades of the 21st century, we can say that Woody Allen saw it all coming.

Although countless Hollywood movies have been made about diseases and other ailments, from Terms of Endearment to Philadelphia, the 87-year-old Allen remains our chief cinematic expositor of what has become the prime psychological affliction in America today: hypochondria. That is, the baseless fear that one is in unusually or dramatically ill health.

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