An expelled medical student who successfully sued the New York University Medical School as a handicapped individual had, at various times in her life, overdosed on sleeping pills, injected herself with a powerful cancer drug, plunged a kitchen knife into her stomach, cut into her arteries and veins numerous times, and taken cyanide. In addition to self-abuse, she also didn't get along with doctors, on several occasions biting them, scratching them with her fingernails, or lunging at them with scissors. She was diagnosed with "Borderline Personality Disorder."

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