Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 113
Question 1
What did Valsalva (1666-1723) note as “..leaving the tongue tingling unpleasantly for the better part of the day“
- Gangrenous pus
- He also noted that it did “not taste good“.
- The things we do for science…. [Reference]
Question 2
What does the acronym “gomer” (or goomer) stand for? Which book first featured the use of the acronym – “gomer”? What is the sequel to that book?
- Get Out of My Emergency Room
- Features heavily in the Samuel Shem book “The House of God” (1978) and used to refer to patients who have “..lost —often through age- what goes into being a human being”.
- The lesser known sequel is “Mount Misery“
Question 3
The non-fiction book “The Hot Zone
” by Richard Preston, features a scene when two scientists sniff a culture flask for the distinctive smell of Pseudomonas contamination. What does the flask actually contain?
Question 4
“A Great Physician should not pay attention to status, wealth or age; neither should he question whether the particular person is attractive or unattractive, whether he is an enemy or friend, whether he is a Chinese or a foreigner, or finally, whether he is uneducated or educated. He should meet everyone on equal grounds. He should always act as if he were thinking of his close relatives” – what is this from and who wrote it?
- Sun Simiao (581-682)
- Sun Simiao wrote the text – “On the Absolute Sincerity of Great Physicians“, from which the excerpt is taken. It is often referred to as the “Chinese Hippocratic Oath”.[Reference]
Question 5
While examining your patients neck you notice that the carotid pulse is absent on one side. What might this be due to, and what is this sign called?
- Berry’s sign
- Eponymous sign named after Dr James Berry relating to malignant thyromegaly – tumour encasing the carotid and muffling the pulsations.
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