Medical Trivia

1. Which Ancient Greek physician has a medical oath named after him? The oath states that a physician will treat a patient to the best of their ability amongst other ethical issues.

From Quiz Legendary Physicians

Answer: Hippocrates

The Hippocratic Oath is still relevant to physicians today even though it was written over 2,000 years ago. It contains many ethical issues but the basic premise is that any physician will treat their patients to the best of their ability. Other than the oath, Hippocrates also founded the Hippocratic School of medicine and many of his ideas are still relevant today. He is known as the "Father of Medicine."

From Quiz Just What the Doctor Ordered

Answer: Hippocrates

He has been credited as the "Father of Western Medicine" for his contributions in the field of medicine and is credited with creating the Hippocratic Oath.

From Quiz The Lady is a Doctor

Answer: Merit Ptah

Merit Ptah (c.2700 BCE) was a physician in Ancient Egypt. Her image and name were inscribed in the 'Step Pyramid' at Saqqara. Her son, a high priest, referred to her a 'Chief Physician'. She is not to be confused with the wife of Ramose.

From Quiz Doctor Whom?

Answer: William Harvey

For a man born in 1578 in Folkestone, England, William Harvey did plenty of circulating of his own. He traveled through France and Germany before moving on to the University of Padua in Italy where he graduated as a Doctor of Medicine. He then returned to England and in the very same year also graduated as a Doctor of Medicine at Cambridge.

From Quiz You: The Emergency Medical Technician

Answer: Is the scene secure (i.e., police are present and in control at the scene)?

Your safety and the safety of your team is *the* most important thing. If you are injured or incapacitated, you will be of little help to the victim.

From Quiz Legendary Physicians

Answer: Carbolic Acid

Lister hypothesised that using carbolic acid to sterilise his equipment would be beneficial after he observed that cows suffered no ill harm after grazing on fields that had been irrigated with carbolic acid. His theory and work resulted in lower numbers of patients suffering infections after operations and his work led the way in further surgical improvements that followed on from his work.

From Quiz Just What the Doctor Ordered

Answer: The first heart transplant

He performed the first heart transplant on a 54 year old man. It took nine hours with a team of thirty people to complete. The patient died 18 days later of pneumonia, not heart disease.

From Quiz The Lady is a Doctor

Answer: Agnodike

Agnodike (c.350 BCE) worked in male clothing as a gynecologist and midwife. In order to be trained, she had to disguise herself as a man. Women were so neglected in Ancient Greece that many believe her story may be legend.

From Quiz Doctor Whom?

Answer: Jonas Salk

He refused to patent his vaccine because personal profit was less important to him than getting it distributed as widely as possible. Truly, a great man. How many researchers would do the same today as he did in 1955?

From Quiz So You Want To Be An Emergency Medical Technician

Answer: Scene safety

The first step when arriving on any scene is scene safety. The lead on an ambulance is responsible for the crew, therefore all dangers on the scene must be surveyed and assessed. Panic is obviously a joke. I hope that no trained professional ever panics.

From Quiz Take Two And Call Me Tomorrow

Answer: heart transplant

On December 3rd, 1967 Barnard, assisted by his brother, performed the surgery on a 55 year old patient named Louis Washkansky. The patient suffered from diabetes as well as incurable heart disease. The transplanted heart came from a woman who had died in a car accident. Although Washkansky died after 18 days due to pneumonia, the procedure was a major breakthrough in the world of medicine.

From Quiz Phlebotomists: We Want Your Blood!

Answer: Verify her identity

This is extremely important! When you have blood drawn, the phlebotomist should make sure you are the person listed on the lab label. This may include asking you for your last name and checking your date of birth. It isn't going to do you any good if your blood is labeled with another person's name, and it could do you a lot of harm.

From Quiz Medical Transcription Knowledge

Answer: bruit

Bruits can be heard on other parts of the body as well (abdominal bruit, femoral bruit).

From Quiz Legendary Physicians

Answer: Smallpox

Jenner noticed that milkmaids generally were immune to the deadly disease smallpox. He therefore hypothesised that being infected with the disease cowpox would make you immune to smallpox. He injected a small boy with cowpox and then noticed that the boy, too, was immune to smallpox. Jenner's work was eventually accepted and the government started to issue the vaccine free of charge. Jenner's work paved the way to modern vaccination, a key way to control disease. (His method of testing this would nowadays be regarded as unethical).

From Quiz Just What the Doctor Ordered

Answer: Developed M.A.S.H. units

Bethune was a Canadian doctor and medical developer of M. A.S.H. (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital). He also developed a Mobile Blood Transfusion device during the Spanish Civil War.

From Quiz The Lady is a Doctor

Answer: Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a physician and studied many medicinal herbs. She was a visionary and healer with a well regarded reputation in healing arts. She wrote 'Physica', which was studied in universities during the Middle Ages. She is also well known as a theologian, mystic and composer. In 2012 she was named a Doctor of the Church by the Pope. To avoid misunderstanding, it should be pointed out that this is in recognition of her theology and mysticism and has nothing to do with being a physician.

From Quiz Doctor Whom?

Answer: Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister was the founder or one of the founders of antiseptic surgery. However the reason his name will be familiar to the average person today is because Listerine was named in his honor. Listerine was first produced as a surgical antiseptic in 1879, but didn't become a success until it was marketed as a cure for bad breath in the 1920s.

From Quiz So You Want To Be An Emergency Medical Technician

Answer: Study of body structures

All Emergency Medical Technicians must have a basic knowledge of anatomy. For example, if an ambulance arrives on the scene with a patient who is complaining of lower right abdominal pain the EMT must know what organs are involved in that area. The appendix is located in the lower right lower abdominal quadrant. Therefore one possibility could be appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix).

From Quiz Take Two And Call Me Tomorrow

Answer: polio

The vaccine was first tested on volunteer subjects in 1952. The success of those tests allowed Salk to introduce the vaccine to the world in 1955.

From Quiz Nursing Assistants

Answer: Say, "I will bring something later if you want it."

They have the right to eat or not. It is also against the law to force someone to eat.

From Quiz Legendary Physicians

Answer: Insulin

Banting theorised that insulin could be extracted after reading other scientists' work and applying it to insulin. He conducted his work using the facilities of Dr JJR MacLeod and was assisted by Charles Best. For his work in the field, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1923. He shared half of his prize money with Best.

From Quiz Just What the Doctor Ordered

Answer: Insulin

In 1921, he co-discovered insulin, and received the Nobel Prize in medicine, which he shared with Frederick Banting. They had discovered insulin jointly.

From Quiz The Lady is a Doctor

Answer: Metrodora

Metrodora (c 200-400 BCE) was the author of the oldest known surviving medical text to have been written by a woman. Her skills were well regarded but she was kept from practicing medicine in male dominated Greece.

From Quiz Doctor Whom?

Answer: Ruth Westheimer

Perhaps the name Westheimer seems unfamiliar because so many people know her only as "Doctor Ruth". Not many people would know that she was trained as both a scout and a sharpshooter and was injured in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence.

From Quiz Take Two And Call Me Tomorrow

Answer: first physician in outer space

Yegorov was chosen as part of a crew of cosmonauts on the Russian spacecraft Voskhod I. The spaceship launched on October 12, 1964 and besides having the first physician onboard, the mission was also the first to have more than one person onboard as well as the first without space suits. The mission was designed to beat the American Gemini program to that accomplishment.

From Quiz Nursing Assistants

Answer: tell the nurse

Always tell the nurse. As a STNA, you are the main person in contact with them. Something as simple as a bruise could mean that there needs to be a change in their meds.

From Quiz Medical Transcription Knowledge

Answer: Synthroid

Trade and brand names of medications are capitalized. Generic names of medications are typed in lower case.

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