Déformation professionnelle

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Déformation professionnelle is a French phrase, meaning a tendency to look at things from the point of view of one's own profession and forget a broader perspective. It is a pun on the expression "formation professionnelle," meaning "professional training." The implication is that all (or most) professional training results to some extent in a distortion of the way the professional views the world. "When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail," is an adage describing this phenomenon. Med Student Syndrome is arguably an example, in which a student who is engrossed in medical texts has a tendency to over-react to the student's own inconsequential symptoms.