WolvenFury
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I will address these in order of receipt: First, I would like to point out that your statement, which was very short, would be perceived, in my opinion, by most individuals as a personal attack due to two factors: One, your "source" for your statement is "urbandictionary.com", which is a repository for slang and unconventional definition and which I linked to via your link, which had the word "hypochondriasis" highlighted WITHIN a paragraph under the heading of "Medical Student's Syndrome". Most observational people, again in my opinion, would connect to someone looking first to insult and second to be guilty of the very accusation they make, referring of course to definition 1, section 2 of your source, which states "...who over analyzes everything and everyone and thinks everyone has a disease or mental condition" in concluding I have "hypochondriasis" when my statements have not been diagnostic in nature but instead cautionary and indicative of an emphasis on preventative care, including observation and monitoring for potential changes and especially having concentrated on the acknowledgement of risks taken, thereby invalidating your accusation as a logical fallacy. The fallacy in this case is ad hominem personum, concurrent to the source under definition 1, sections 1 and 3 which read respectively: (1) The one and only symptom of it is that they think they have diseases they are learning about, (3) Normally they find that they or someone else has one symptom of a disease and think that they or another person has the disease. Usually they ignore all other symptoms. In addressing section 1, I do not think I have breast cancer or will develop it as the likelihood is extraordinarily slim, although not impossible, since I am male. In addressing section 3, I have at no point rendered diagnosis, which would be concurrent with the statement in section 3 regarding perception of a disease based on a solitary symptom, but direct you to my statements regarding preventative care and personal responsibility. 2: Yet again committing another logical fallacy, again an argumentum ad hominem, you make the assumption that being 21 invalidates my ability to have achieved medical school by this age without attributing a number of possible factors, such as Dual Enrollment (which I participated in for the last two years of high school, attending university while concurrently enrolled in high school), Advanced Placement Credit (which I did indeed achieve in my studies in high school), testing credits under various programs which allow the exemption of certain coursework or even grades (which I did several times in my courses of study that allowed me to "test out" of unessential courses viewed as below my current abilities). Therefore, I conclude that your arguments are insulting, offensive, and incorrect because you have chosen to ignore viable alternatives that could have occured to allow me this achievement. 3: Your statement regarding my argument indicates that you either have not read all of my posts in this thread or that you have chosen to purposefully ignore them for the express intent of attacking my credibility. I will choose to address the less insidious notion and give you some credit (which you have chosen not to give to me, good sir) in assuming the former rather than the latter, and will proceed to direct you to my post wherein I copied and pasted a specific study by a university in Lancaster in the UK covering the statistical plausibility and correlation between trauma to the breast and the presence of breast cancer. 4: I willingly concede a misinterpretation of her statement, believeing she was referring to the plausibility of breast cancer occuring from trauma instead of her own worry and offer her my apology for said misinterpretation. I will also respond that the mature thing to do would be to take this to a private message if you would like to continue this discussion, as I'm sure members of this board do not need to be subjected to another thorough evisceration of your arguments taking up space on their computer screen nor your own fallacious accusations and inflammatory remarks. Thank you and have a wonderful day.
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Leo, RPT/CPT and Medical Student
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