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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Medical Student Syndrome (ICD - F_ _?)

It is strange how the MSS is not listed under the ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders.

How could the field of psychiatry ignore the significant number of medical students afflicted by mysterious ear, nose or throat symptoms on their ENT attachments, countless hormonal mood swings during O&G placements, non-existent heart murmurs on cardiology and suspicious tingling and numbness when on the neurology wards. If this is not enough, then surely the bouts of depression and doubts about their own sanity when on psychiatry placements should be evidence enough to recognise this as an illness in medical students. A potentially lethal illness for which there is only one cure-3-day weekends every week!

I love medicine..

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