Talk:Medical students' disease

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This article was nominated for deletion on 30 December 2005 The result of the discussion was Keep. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

• comment I always just assumed this phenomenon was an adjunct of the widely accepted 'premed's aren't very bright' theorem, perhaps a merge is in order--63.22.94.162 17:54, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Har har, no. You are underestimating the complex and indiosyncratic brain... and OCD is for spoiled, over-bored people with way too much time on their hands...

[edit] Think maybe this doesn't add much to the article

I had included this:

A jocular account (Celis, 2003) is given by a student writing in the StudentBMJ:

Over the past 10 months, my girlfriend has had rectal cancer, diabetes, amebiasis, mesenteric ischemia, and even severe acute respiratory syndrome. No, she does not have familial polyps, she is not obese, she is not a senior citizen, and she has never been to Beijing. She is just a medical student. It all started a year ago when she began her clinical courses. After taking microbiology, she had an acute case of shigellosis. A day after passing endocrinology, she fell ill with a pheochromocytoma. And three months ago, having finished gastroenterology, her rectum had a malignant neoplasm, a parasitic infection, and haemorrhoids.

• de Celis, Enrique Soto Pérez de Celis (2003), "Studying with the Enemy," studentBMJ 2003;11:307-348 [1]

It's not that there's anything wrong with it, but it doesn't add that much. It doesn't add anything factual, and it's not as funny as Jerome K. Jerome's account. So I'm taking it out. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:18, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Catagory

Have had time now to have checked DSM-IV-TR regarding category for this article. (please don't come back at me with just dictionary def's or other psychobabel ) The authoring psychiatrist have -it seems- craftily made sure that it doesn't fall exactly into any of the existing codes, thus ensuring that they have not suffered from a psychiatric illness themselves ;-) Some of those checked through are: psychosomatic, somatoform (inc. conversion disorder, hypochondria etc), delutional disorder -somatic type. Also, there are good neurological models to explain that its a normal process of being made more aware of internal psychical perceptions that affects some personality types. Therefor it is a diagnosis for a certain temporary psychology phenomena. Suggest that it's logical therefore, to be given the category & sub categories: Perception | Psychology | Illusion | Somatic | Diagnosis This will hopefully connect the article into everything else, rather than let it hang out in the cold on its own.--Aspro 21:38, 31 December 2005 (UTC)