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What is remdesivir and dexamethasone?
These two medications are the only interventions in COVID-19 to show reduction of disease duration in hospitalized patients
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Who is Hippocrates?
This physician wrote: “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”
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What is Tissue transglutaminase antibody (tTG)-IgA?
Used to evaluate for patients with chronic or recurrent diarrhea, malabsorption, unexpected weight loss, abdominal pain, and bloating
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What is Number needed to Treat (NNT)?
Name associated with the formula 1/(absolute risk reduction)
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Who is John Long Long?
This resident is from a city where 76% of its revenue is derived from gambling (extra points for name and city)
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What is ACE2 receptor?
A transmembrane protein used by the novel SARS-COV2 virus to enter cells
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Who is Sir William Osler?
This physician created the first residency program at Johns Hopkins hospital and described one of the signs in Duke’s criteria for endocarditis
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What is Insulin-like Growth Factor?
Initial test used to diagnose a syndrome that causes headache/vision loss, thickening of skin, enlargement of the hands and feet, and prognathism
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What is Complete Heart Block?
Diagnosis for regular bradycardia and variable intensity of S1 with prominent A waves
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Who is John Le? (and Trevor Nguyen)
This resident wrote and directed a musical during college which another resident starred in (extra points for getting both names)
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What is Pepcid (Famotidine)?
In retrospective studies this GI medication was associated with a lower mortality with COVID.
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Who is Andrew Taylor Still?
This American physician was active in the abolitionist movement and created a new medical system that departed from practices of his time that included arsenic and blood letting
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What is Anti-NMDA?
This test is specific for a syndrome involving patients with fever, headache, psychosis, and seizures who frequently have gonadal teratomas
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What is Pulmonary rehabilitation?
Interstitial lung disease treatment associated with significant improvement in six-minute walk distance
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Who is Steven Lin?
This resident used to compete in Swing Dancing competitions
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What is IL-6?
The elevation of this cytokine in COVID-19 infections is associated with marked inflammation
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Who is Avicenna?
A Persian physician called as one of the fathers of medicine who wrote “The Canon of Medicine” which became a standard text in Europe
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What is Beta-D glucan (Fungitell)?
A product of fungal wall breakdown that can be seen in Candida and Aspergillus infections but not Mucor or Rhizopus
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What is Scarbossa's Criteria?
A way to help diagnose STEMI in a patient with a concomitant left bundle branch block
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Who is Becky Nguyen?
This resident is a black belt in Tae Kwan Do
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What is bevacizumab?
An Anti-VEGF medication used for lung and colon cancer that is now being investigated in trials to use in COVID-19 patients
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Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
The first woman to receive a medical degree in the US who promoted social and economic justice and pioneered in promoting education for women in medicine
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What is mixed connective tissue disease?
Condition significantly associated with high titers of anti-U1-ribonucleoprotein antibodies
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What is R-CHOP (Rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone)?
Acronym for the chemotherapy used in all stages of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
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What is 2020 Audi A3?
The make, model, and year of Kevin Amador’s new car
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