You know...

• Anatomy has caused a structural change to your thinking when you wish that if there had to be so many organs required for the body to function (like the liver for example) , the least they could do is not describe the remnants of embryological structures like the falciform ligament which have no function (except to increase the amount one has to study).
• Physiology is altering your thought processes when you extend the meaning of vasodilation to all possible limits.
  
• Biochemistry is recycling itself in your brain when a chocolate cake can trigger a lecture on beta oxidation till the glaze shifts from the cake to your listener's eyes.
  
• Pathology has dis-eased your thoughts when you bemoan the pathos of the chaos caused by the sickle. Of course, if you're a Mallu, that could also mean this .
  
• Microbiology has infected your outlook when you call marriage a ringworm.
  
• You've overdosed on Pharmacology when someone writes wink, wink, nudge, nudge and you think of antipsychotics and tardive dyskinesia.
• Forensics (and Toxicology) has poisoned your thinking when strychnine is your choice of poison (for someone else, of course) because he/ she makes you convulse with disgust.
• You've seen enough of Ophthalmology when you laugh at this or when your differential diagnosis of a chalazion is a sebaceous cell carcinoma.
• You've heard quite enough of ENT when you tell a friend you have sphenoidal sinus tenderness (which of course is caused by aseptic meningitis).
  (On a lighter note : The way to a man's heart is through his oesophagus)
• P.S.M. (Preventive and Social Medicine) has added dimensions of health to your thoughts when you use it to justify your opinion about the current situation in Kashmir.
  
• You've ingested quite enough of Medicine when you tell your mother that you're eating all the chocolate in sight because it increases the dopamine levels in your nucleus accumbens .
• Surgery is really cutting into your life when this is your idea of a purr-fect Valentine's Day date. (By the way, there's something wrong with my Surg text ; it doesn't have an appendix :P)
  
• Obstetrics isn't going to bring you deliverance when your standard joke in the aforementioned posting is, " I'm dilated to be at your cervix".
  
• Gynaecology is causing your thoughts to prolapse when the word clue brings Gardenerella to mind.
• Paediatrics is making a baby of you when you wonder if a meeting of minds will give rise to a brainchild.
  
• Anaesthesiology is knocking you out when you use "the science of sleeping around" as a relaxant.
  
• You should por(e)ing over skin / VD when you start making rash promises.
  
• Psychiatry is nuts because you're too Jung to understand it
• Orthopaedics will cause a brokeback when you diagnose your friend's cellular phone as suffering from repetitive strain injury.
• Radiology has definitely penetrated when you look and look for the real MRI of a man's brain... and find it. :P

And you can definitely diagnose that you've been studying too much when this makes sense.


Liff As I Know It!