Just What the Doctor Ordered Trivia Quiz

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.

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.

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.

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.

Answer: The first woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.

She was the first woman to graduate from medical school with a degree in the U.S. and the first woman on the UK Medical Register. She also pioneered promoting the education of women in medicine. Her sister Emily was the third to graduate.

Contrary to a widespread misconception, Elizabeth Blackwell was *not* the first woman in the world to receive a medical degree. As far as can be established that distinction goes to Dorothea Erxleben (1715-62), of Quedlinburg in Germany who was awarded a the degree of MD by the University of Halle in 1754.

Answer: The "Father of Modern Dentistry"

He wrote the first complete scientific description of dentistry. He also invented instruments of oral surgery such as the obturater and the dentist's drill.

Answer: The pioneer of brain surgery

He was the first to describe Cushing's Disease. He graduated from Yale in 1891 and studied medicine at Harvard. He interned at Massachusetts General and did his residency at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.

Answer: Benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G)

Benzylpenicillin (penicillin G) and liysozme.
He received and shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain; for their respective roles in the discovery and development of penicillin. His accidental discovery of penicillin G has saved countless lives.
Florey and Chain conducted the first clinical trials of Fleming's discovery (they were able to isolate Fleming's discovery, and produce it).

Answer: Psychoanalysis

He graduated with a degree in neurology from the University of Vienna in 1881 and conducted research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy. He created psychoanalysis, which is what he is most famous for.

Answer: Inventing the Heimlich Maneuver

As a thoracic surgeon he has developed the Heimlich Maneuver to stop people from choking. His other inventions include the Micro Trach and the Portable Oxygen System.