Medstudentitis

(extracted from nemo's)

You know medschool is driving you crazy and you're just too far gone you can't turn back and run when..

1. ABC is no longer as easy and you thought it was
2. Someone asks you where can they find AAA for the remote control and you answer "Autopsy."
3. DIC (dick?) is not just a slang for the male external reproductive organ
4. You wouldn't accept a million when asked to sit on a stool
5. S.O.B stands for shortness of breath and is not rude
6. You know Guillain-Barre is not a chocolate
7. And neither is Henoch-Schönlain an ice cream
8. You possess more than 3 labcoats
9. More than 3 scrubs (2 of which are tailored. haha!)
10. And at least 3 stethoscopes (with different colours and designs), also some syringes with needles, latex gloves, sterile cottons, a bottle of alcohol and a worn out teddy bear
    
11. You wonder if Netter ever runs out of colours and neurotransmitters
12. You look at anatomists with awe and wonder
13. At surgeons with drools
14. You have a designated seat in every lecture
15. You get pissed off when someone else is in your seat
16. You also have a favourite seat in the library
17. You just leave when someone else is in your seat and then come back later to check
18. You never miss a lecture even if you know you'll end up sleeping
    
19. You can spend a significant amount of time in the toilet and conduct a gross check of your you know what
20. Someone brings onto the table a frothy mango drink served in a jar and you think 'pulmonology' and puke
21. But you can discuss gross anatomy over meals just like that!
    
22. You have literally held a heart in your hand (so you're now apathetic)
23. You don't knock, but you percuss and you don't touch/feel, but you palpate
24. You can't wait for a chance to do rectal exam
25. You tend to end everything bad with -itis (or -oma)
26. You want to cure cancer
27. It stresses you out when you know you can't
28. When you use phrases like "we bypassed a few train stations" instead of "skipped a few train stations
29. When you sit on a train and you nudge your friend to check out that guy's tics when he clearly has better assets to be checked out
30. When you think kissing is to get yourself inflicted with herpes simplex
31. When your mother, sisters or aunts ask you about their periods etc, instead of the opposite a few years ago
32. You dont notice the already too familiar strong smell of antiseptics in the hospital,not to mention the wards, paint and toilets
33. The real human skull in the ADH (Anatomy Dissection Hall) isnt freaky anymore
34. PDAs dont seem too cool either (and you'd be sorry rather than shocked to hear your rich friend's child has one)
35. People dont get your jokes but other medic students roll over laughing!
36. You openly talk about some things that might be inappropriate at inappropriate times and it doesn't bother you and your colleague-friends
37. You laugh about the diagnosis on you that your friends make after a lecture until you start to wonder if it's true.
38. You talk about medicine and your engineer sister/brother/friend doesnt understand a word you're saying under those medical terms.
39. You watch ER , Strong Medicine, Scrubs, House, Grey's etc and you start to hear the medical cases, diagnosis and treatment very intently so as not to miss a word (heck you even discuss them with your friends, in between the plot- dont tell me you dont!!)
40. You diagnosed yourself after a couple of lectures on Cushing's Syndrome and you went to meet the lecturer right after only to be confirmed of your worries, but it turned out you have PCOS since they have the same clinical ceatures (it happened to on of my classmates!)
    

Why do you think they call it madmedschool anyway. List is open for extension. Knock yourselves out. ;)