Did you ever watch a medical drama and find out you had a similar

[WCGreen]

symptom and worry yourself to death that you had the same fatal disease?

I remember when I was a kid I thought I had MD. Every year like clockwork around Labor Day I would develop muscle pain in my legs. I would then get all worried and call Jerry Lewis and pledge all this money in my mom's name cause I just knew I had MD...

[TZ]

1. not really

BUT...I have seen them do medical procedures that I've actually had done which has either made me cringe or go now thats NOT right...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Not from watching dramas, no...

But nearly every nursing student, and likewise medical students experience this...

Psychosomatic illness.

The power of suggestion...

[skygazer]

3. My husband suffers from every disease depicted

or featured in advertisements. :eyes:

He also discovers that he "needs" all kinds of stupid shit because some commercial told him he does. Advertising was made for this man. ~sigh~