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This article examines the possible relationship between figure drawing data collected in medical school and health status among physicians. In the present study, which involved both the Conventionality/Deviancy and the Sophistication-of-Body-Concept scales, the ability of these two methods to differentiate among groups of persons who developed different types of physical and psychological disorders some 1 to 33 years subsequent to the time the figure drawings were obtained was investigated. Male and female figure drawings were obtained over a 14-year period from medical students who were attending the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The health status of the vast majority of subjects has been followed annually by mail since graduation in an effort to relate morbidity and mortality to data collected during medical school.