Here’s a medical one.  An eponymous syndrome is an ailment named after a person.  During medical school, it was a favourite past time amongst us all (yes, we were a bunch of sad buggers with no mates) to memorise as many eponymous syndromes as possible and rhyme them off whilst intoxicated with alcohol.   Of course, I didn’t  do that kind of thing (Ha-Ha) but I did study up on the syndromes like a swotty Munchkin.

Ulysses Syndrome comes to mind because it is rather the way that I have seen Medicine being utilised everywhere.

And so the Ulysses (Odysseus) story and syndrome goes like this…

After the Trojan war Ulysses, King of Ithaca, had many dangerous and perhaps pointless adventures before he returned to his starting place.  Similarly, many patients with incurable diseases  start with a problem and end up with much the same problem.  This is usually after many dangerous and pointless tests.  The Ulysses Syndrome describes this over-investigation.

To investigate or not to investigate.  Before you embark on your adventure you may want to speak to us about it.