Things I've Come to Hate from Studying for Step2

Things I've come to hate because I always get the question wrong:

• Metabolic disorders - ase, ase, ase...they're all just some kind of ase deficiency
• Recreational drugs/alcohol - just say no!
• Factitious disorders - people! Stop harming yourself on purpose!
• Endometriosis - seriously, that tissue is annoying enough by itself.
• Viruses/bacteria that shouldn't appear because there's a vaccine - for heaven's sake - no, for your KID'S sake, please, please, please vaccinate your kids!  The article about vaccines causing autism was a complete sham - it was withdrawn with apologies!  So no excuses - vaccinate your kids!
• Vitamin deficiencies - stop being so picky and just eat that meat and veggies (or take vitamin supplements), which leads to another issue...
• Vitamin overload (like A) - yup, too much of a vitamin can be bad too
• Psych diagnosis timelines: difference between schizophreniform vs. schizophrenia is one is 1-6mo of symptoms while the other is >6mo of symptoms.  Really?! Really?!
• Sex- causes so many problems, diseases. Especially those pap smears - too many options, can't keep them straight.  Would make things a lot easier if people just didn't have sex, ever.  But as my friend astutely pointed out, that would make life as a pediatrician a lot harder.