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Patient cannot leave on a 22-mile drive without checking tire pressure, fluid levels, the oil, and running the AC for two minutes. Has done this before a grocery run. Then again, before the return trip. Partner has watched this ritual for six years and stopped commenting. The car is a 2022 Honda CR-V with 8,400 miles on it.
Chronic. Intensifies before any trip longer than 30 miles.
None. The car has been serviced on schedule.
Patients with Pathological Pre-Trip Vehicle Inspection typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Pre-Trip Vehicle Inspection belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Examinatio itineraria obsessiva, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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