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The Hypochondriac

I’m a first-year US medical student who acquire a new disease every week.

Me – I got cancer behind my ear.
Tori – No, I would say that your enlarged lymph node.

Me – I got a weird patch of chicken skin on my elbow.
John – Did you stick your elbow in your dinner?

Me – I think I got Xantholasma
TT – Those are your pores.

Favorite Quote

"There ought to be behind the door of every happy, contented man someone standing with a hammer continually reminding him with a tap that there are unhappy people; that however happy he may be, life will show him her claws sooner or later, trouble will come for him--disease, poverty, losses, and no one will see or hear, just as now he neither sees or hears others." ~ Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries

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