It has been only 7 months since the beginning of the year but there are already 3 new “diagnoses” published in the professional and mainstream media:

Prostatempathy is the reported tendency for male physicians of a certain to order prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening more than what deemed inappropriate. The term was first used

in a paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Wiiitis is acute tendonitis due to playing too much with the new Nintendo video game console called Wii.

Diabulimia: Skipping Insulin to Slim Down

References:
Archives of Internal Medicine Invents New Condition: Prostatempathy. Medgadget, 07/2007.
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