"Take me to the afflicted ones," he sings over a gentle but sturdy piano groove, "Take me to the lonely ones that somehow lost their way".
It afflicts one of her characters in Personal Velocity as well as Pippa Lee.
The disorder afflicts one in 500 people, though not always with fatal results.
The AIDS virus is a plague that now afflicts one in five adults in South Africa.
The Long Island Alzheimer's Foundation estimates that it afflicts one in 10 people over the age of 65, not one in 4.
Yet how to deal with hypochondria, a disorder that afflicts one of every 20 Americans who visit doctors, has been one of the most stubborn puzzles in medicine.
It afflicts one person in four older than 75 and is the leading cause of legal blindness in Americans over 55.
The market for prescription drugs and medical devices to manage Type 2 diabetes, which the Centers for Disease Control estimates will afflict one in three Americans born after 2000, is one of the brighter spots in the American economy.
"It's a commonly accepted practice: one afflicts one's own body as a sign of identifying with the pain of another," said Balfour Brickner, rabbi emeritus at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in Manhattan.
