Having a disease or cell named after you is douchey

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Seriously, how much easier would medicine be if disease names had something even remotely to do with the disease (i.e. agammaglobulinemia vs Niemen-Pick Disease). One that really annoys the crap out of me is, Mycosis Fungoides - which is confusing enough since there is no fungus involved - but then you have to call it Sezary Syndrome if T-cells enter the blood? WTF!

DOWN WITH EPONYMS😡😡

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Seriously, how much easier would medicine be if disease names had something even remotely to do with the disease (i.e. agammaglobulinemia vs Niemen-Pick Disease). One that really annoys the crap out of me is, Mycosis Fungoides - which is confusing enough since there is no fungus involved - but then you have to call it Sezary Syndrome if T-cells enter the blood? WTF!

DOWN WITH EPONYMS😡😡

You gotta admit its pretty stupid. Kinda having "Wilms tumor" as the commonly used name for nephroblastoma.

Its also probably disconcerting for a patient to be told that they have an eponymously named disease. Surely makes it sound more exotic (and who wants their problem to be exotic?)

 

[cfdavid]

Well, it IS pretty darn hard to argue that it facilitates learning. BUT, I do see some value in honoring the pioneers etc. Kind of like a little perk, so to speak.....

 

[Slide]

But this is what the academic pathologists dream of!

 

[TMP-SMX]

Bowman must have been a popular guy. Capsule, space, membrane... Where does it end?

 

[agranulocytosis]

Bowman must have been a popular guy. Capsule, space, membrane... Where does it end?

Golgi was the ultimate...Golgi apparatus, Golgi tendon, Golgi silver stain, Golgi cycle, Golgi cells, Golgi remnant, and probably more I haven't come across yet.

 

[agranulocytosis]

BTW, weren't naming conventions supposed to be changed from proper nouns to more descriptive ones like "Foramen of Winslow" to "Epipolic foramen" or "Eustatian Tube" to "auditory tube"? I don't know, it was something my anatomy professor said way back in 1st semester.

 

[vir0n]

Cooper did alright for himself too.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Bowman must have been a popular guy. Capsule, space, membrane... Where does it end?

Bowman's glands in the olfactory eptithelium

 

[TMP-SMX]

Bowman's glands in the olfactory eptithelium

I knew I forgot one! Lol. Hey it's been a while since I had Histology.

 

[smq123]

DOWN WITH EPONYMS😡😡

1) Did they teach you guys that it is now "improper" to call it Alzheimer's Disease? You're "supposed" to call it Alzheimer Disease (without the posessive s), because Dr. Alzheimer never actually had dementia. It is also not Down's Syndrome, it is just Down Syndrome.

You can, however, call it Lou Gehrig's Disease, because he actually suffered from ALS.

🙄 Irritating.

2) There's a move to stop people from referring to it as "Reiter Syndrome" - apparently, Reiter was quite the Nazi war criminal, unfortunately.

 

[speeter]

Surely makes it sound more exotic (and who wants their problem to be exotic?)

Exotic problems are ok as long as they don't try to marry you and gain citizenship.

 

[seraph524]

Exotic problems are ok as long as they don't try to marry you and gain citizenship.

Mail-order brides ftw!