Will Bynum
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273 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2022
last heard Oct 2022
Will Bynum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My medical education and in among the singular events of my life
In fact, I I was in, I guess, my second year of medical school when I was preparing for step one and
I developed a
Uh what I thought was something stuck in the back of my throat.
over the week or two or three before the test.
I mean, and it was really concerning and I and I
I went to an ENT doctor.
And he essentially laughed me out of the room.
after I told him I was preparing for the step exam and diagnosed me with something called globus hystericus.
And I looked up the definition of this right before we got on.
The definition of globus hystericus from medicinenet.com.
Whatever that is.
Globus hystericus is a symptom of some physical disorders as well as a classic sign of hysterical neurosis that suggests a physical disorder, but is instead an expression of a psychological conflict or need.
And thinking back on my globus hystericus preparing for step one, it wasn't just stress mediated.
There was a psychological conflict.
And that conflict was
The tension between recognizing that this test filled with a bunch of multiple choice questions, much of which test obscure knowledge, was going to ultimately shape
me as a person and who I could become as a person, what type of medicine I could practice, the difference I could make, all came down to this one test.
Or that's the message that I was given that or the narrative that was
communicated to us as medical students.
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