I can’t help but notice nail clubbing in strangers when I am outside or talking to someone. What is something you now spot or take note of without realizing it?
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I remember watching House M.D. during my UG and the next day my Medicine Professor spoke about how history taking starts as soon as the patient enters the OPD. After that class, I became hypervigilant and started assessing people from their gait, skin, behaviour, any edema or clubbing like you said. It’s a fun memory.
I’ve started noticing things like hygiene habits, body posture, or even minor health signs that I wouldn’t have paid attention to before med school.
I have started noticing patient gaits, general body appearance and posture, nails and skin.
I began observing people more closely, noting their facial proportions, smile lines, and any crowding or malocclusion.
Haha, so true! Prisha 
Same here I can’t unsee jaundiced eyes or tremors anymore. Maybe you can add “Once you learn medicine, you start diagnosing the world unintentionally!”
I tend notice pedal edema and teeth crowding. My eyes will just automatically notice that first now.
Every time I step out now, my med‑school training turns the world into a living textbook. I catch subtle signs like clubbed nails, jaundiced sclera, or an odd gait in strangers—things I would’ve ignored before. Conversations and interactions become clinical observations: noticing posture, skin texture, even mild tremors. It feels like my diagnostic radar is always on. While sometimes exhausting, this sharpened awareness reminds me how much medicine changes not just what we study, but how we see the world—and people around us.
Unfortunately or fortunately whatever it maybe, I’ve started making a biopshcosocial profile for everyone I see/talk and now it’s become second in nature 