When I started medical school, I told myself that I wouldn't become one of those silly medical students who believes they have every recently learned disease. HA! Who was I kidding?
As we go through the organ systems, there are moments when I'm convinced that I have at least one or two of the diseases mentioned. OK, maybe four or five.
Gee, my hip has really been hurting. I think I have chondrosarcoma. What? My x-rays show no acute pathology? Are you sure?
Gee, I seem to have some discoloration in my skin. . . acanthosis nigricans? Could it be paraneoplastic (yes, it's always cancer)?
And now that I have my stethoscope. . .
Hmm, is that an S3 gallop? No, definitely S4. Maybe I have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy? See, not having enough time to run is a good thing after all .
Hmm, did I just hear crackles? Pneumonia-- no, interstitial lung disease-- no, pneumonia.
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Well I think we are suffering:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_student_syndrome
And remember - if wikipedia says it, it MUST be true!
Medical Student Syndrome indeed. One of the clinicians warned us of this at the beginning of the school year.
Ah, Wikipedia. A professor once told us to go ahead and use wikipedia if we didn't want to read the required text, but warned that "taking the exam will be a very unpleasant experience." It was funny because he said it as if he was the Terminator.
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