Last night I woke up around three in the morning. I was sweating, my heart was beating super fast, and my blood pressure was so high that it felt like blood might shoot out of my eyes at any second.
Since we’re in the middle of the endocrine unit at school, my first reaction was that I have pheochromocytoma, a catecholamine-secreting tumor. There’s no way I was having a bad dream, or am just a little over-anxious about the test coming up on Friday. No, it’s much more likely that I have a disease that is seen in about five in a million people.
This is how I memorize my clinical correlations for the test, by the way. I actually get the diseases we’re learning about. It’s a bitch, but I’ve yet to find a better way.
I have a feeling that this will make pathology a very difficult class next year.
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pathology won’t be so bad…ok, it kind of will be (for all us hypochondrics). MICRO is where it’s at! MICRO will put the fear of EVERYTHING into your head…i’m still scared of micro, and i finished it a week ago!
Wait until you do infectious disease / micro
It will change the way you look at the world forever. That toilet seat, the public washroom door handle, that guy coughing in the back of the class.