Thank God for modern medicine. It was not until 1905 that e… - Mark Forsyth

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Thank God for modern medicine. It was not until 1905 that ergophobia (the morbid fear of returning to work) was first identified and reported in the British Medical Journal. As yet there is no known cure, but doctors have been working on it, and may get back to working on it sometime soon.

Mark Forsyth

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