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On a Psych Rotation, Med Student Discovers His Own Anorexia

Posted on April 21, 2008

Med students, barraged with an endless list of ways the human body can falter, often fall into spells of hypochondria. Sometimes, though, medical training prompts students to discover real disease in themselves.David Gwynfor Samuel, a final-year med student in the U.K., realized he had anorexia when his psychiatry rotation took him to an eating disorder clinic, where he saw a room full of human mirrors of my bony form. He tells his story in the current issue of the British Medical Journal.Once the lightbulb clicked on, the budding diagnostician in Samuel recognized that, in addition to a...

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