This question discusses the psychological factors involved when the doctors become patients. Do they correlate their simple symptoms to a complex disease because they know too much? What happens when doctors themselves have to lie down on the patient table? They also have their share of anxieties which originate from their knowledge. Allow me to share a story of a cardiologist! A cardiologist started having a chest pain one night and went straight to ER.
From his knowledge, he was sure that he was having MI. He also had high cholesterol and a family history of early heart disease. While going to the hospital, he started relaying the incidents in his mind about angiography, angioplasty, the recuperation period, the medicines he would need to take, and most importantly his life would not remain so carefree! He remembered all the Do's and Dont's he always suggested to his patients. Later…
