CME Anxiety Disorder

We all know about social anxiety disorder, but CME Anxiety Disorder could be the most paralyzing disorder.
Here are the symptoms:
If you have one or more of these symptoms please see your CME director.

1. You are constantly worried that you have left out the "standards for commercial support" statement.
2. You have a hard time falling asleep because you have not second guessed yourself at least 100 times.
3. You question the expertise of faculty who "Do Not Have A Conflict."
4. You fear that all attending physicians are really homeless and have no other place to go.
5. You think your mother was right and you are being punished by G-D because you did not become a doctor.
6. You have a commercial funder who totally understands the rules and restrictions on funding CME activities and praises you for your high standards and efforts. Then you wake up!
7. You're afraid to send invitations for dinner meetings because a spouse may call, accusing you of having an affair with their doctor spouse because they can't come to the dinner meeting.
   
8. You change jobs and cars frequently because you feel someone is following you.
   
9. You can't tell your children what your job is because the anti-pharma gang on the playground may beat them up.
10. You feel guilty about asking for a generic drug from your doctor.

Comments

[Alicia Zambri]

Very cute. The funny thing (or maybe not so funny) is that I can relate to some of these symptoms. In fact, I HAVE some of these symptoms! That is when you know you are doing well in the land of CME.