Have you run into that autoimmune self-diagnosis syndrome?

hypochondria, or everyone thinking they have hashimoto's disease?

The latter

I haven't done much clinic work, mostly inpatient. I'm sure I will

muh thyroid

muh fibromyalgia

Hypochondria is too pejorative a term at this stage

It refers to making shit up instead of health anxiety

I go out of my way to use antiquated 1950s medical lingo

especially for psych stuff

Because it's pejorative? 😛

yes

and when presenting patients I never omit their race

Health anxiety tends to be experienced through strange unassailable psychosomatic phenomena whereas making shit up is different

Or so I noticed in a good friend of mine

He is extremely truthful but had weird aches and pains in his abdomen and he got worked up and thought he was gonna die. Went to a bunch of doctors but they couldn't find anything

Not at all the kind of dude to make stuff up, but something was wrong that couldn't be identified and may not have been there in a physical sense

Race is important

Hugely important

it totally is

if I tell you a patient is hypertensive and diabetic and you think he's black but actually he's white, that changes everything

I worked with one girl who actually specifies it down to nationality

"65 year old polish male presents with..."

kind of thing

clever girl

I first did that by accident when on knee jerk impulse I couldn't help but refer to a person as "italian" because I couldn't bring myself to call him "white"

I don't see what the point of omitting the information could even conceivably be

some bs about dignity

being a politically correct retard

once I am just a few steps further in my career I am going to openly call it retarded to let even a shred of political correctness bullshit get in the way of patient care

Sure, but I'm interested in the motivation that culminates in that

What these people are thinking to be PC retards

I have seen trannies be written in the medical notes as the gender they are trying to be, not as their real gender

I made a scene about it too with the other doctors

In some sense, y'know, I think that's what they want

"what the hell is this? that's a woman abusing testosterone, not a man! are you going to do surgery and find ovaries and not even know what you're dealing with?"

To find a hill to die on, in this case it's a barren mons pubis

"are you going to think that is a man with no penis and a randomly fucked up lipid profile, or realize it's a woman on anabolic steroids?"

in my view doctors should be SCIENTISTS

and there is no "believe" in science

Yeah, I find it a bit ridiculous that they ask you which arm they're going to be operating on just to make sure (because based on precedent, otherwise someone gets a perfectly good arm cut the fuck up), but they're just okay with referring to someone as if they were the biologically opposite sex