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I think it may be fun to start a thread of stereotypes we see in FA/Uworld. I don't even know if stereotype is the right word. Maybe associations based on ethnicity/region/gender/etc...

I'll start! (And if no one else likes this game, I'll probably be the only one posting).

Takayasu- Asian
 
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golfman said:
I think it may be fun to start a thread of stereotypes we see in FA/Uworld. I don't even know if stereotype is the right word. Maybe associations based on ethnicity/region/gender/etc...

I'll start! (And if no one else likes this game, I'll probably be the only one posting).

Takayasu- Asian
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That looks like a pun straight on me 😡

Obesity -> Americans :meanie::meanie:
 
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If you see the word "caucasian", you don't have to go far before you see the words "with a history of recurrent upper-respiratory infections"

I met a white chick the other day with SLE. I thought that was weird as ****. In reality, its not that weird. It was all I could do to resist asking her if she was sure it was SLE and not cystic fibrosis.
 
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This one is obvious. Alcoholic = Folate / Thiamine deficiency.

The reason I bring this up is: Why on earth don't they supplement Beer with Thiamine? I mean, they are already putting Vitamin D in milk, etc...

It's obviously a problem, so beer companies listen up! Put some thiamine in there. Or would that not work?
 
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golfman said:
I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. A pun on you?
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Sorry it was meant to be funny.

Ashkenazi Jews = 1/30 probability of Tay Sachs carriers.

Gastric Adenocarinoma = Japan

From that website above = Cave explorers have cryptococcus (Correction = that's histoplasmosis. Pigeon breeders would have cryptococcus. No?)
 
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These aren't stereotypes, but I think they fit:

Just the vasculitides:
Young male smoker - Buerger's
Kid with asthma - Churg-Strauss
Little asian kids - Kawasaki's
Hep B - Pan
Old ladies - temporal arteritis.

P.S. If you're a diabetic or an Ashkenazi Jew you're screwed.
P.S.S. On medical tests, immigrants never get immunizations. Racists.
 
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kissmyasthma99 said:
These aren't stereotypes, but I think they fit:

Just the vasculitides:
Young male smoker - Buerger's
Kid with asthma - Churg-Strauss
Little asian kids - Kawasaki's
Hep B - Pan
Old ladies - temporal arteritis.

P.S. If you're a diabetic or an Ashkenazi Jew you're screwed.
P.S.S. On medical tests, immigrants never get immunizations. Racists.
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Excellent review on what I just studied. Thanks that helped. 🙂
 
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Patients never just have jobs. They have occupational hazards just waiting to get them.

Vacations will always be to an area of the world where there is some endemic disease not normally present where they are originally come from. No one ever just "goes to the beach".

If you so much as look at a pigeon, parrot, or bird of any kind - you will catch something.

Spelunking is inordinately popular.
 
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Tourterm said:
Patients never just have jobs. They have occupational hazards just waiting to get them.

Vacations will always be to an area of the world where there is some endemic disease not normally present where they are originally come from. No one ever just "goes to the beach".

If you so much as look at a pigeon, parrot, or bird of any kind - you will catch something.

Spelunking is inordinately popular.
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LOL! Exactly what I was thinking. How many caves there are exactly in Ohio and Mississipi anyway? :laugh::meanie:
 
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Pregnant woman swears she takes her OCP's religiously but she's pregnant, oh no must have been a P450 inducer! also works for: guy on warfarin but oh no his INR is low... lets see if you memorized your Queen Barb mnemonic
 
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Domenech said:
Sorry it was meant to be funny.

Ashkenazi Jews = 1/30 probability of Tay Sachs carriers.

Gastric Adenocarinoma = Japan

From that website above = Cave explorers have cryptococcus (Correction = that's histoplasmosis. Pigeon breeders would have cryptococcus. No?)
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Oh you're fine. I just didn't understand. 😉
 
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guywhodoesstuff said:
wouldn't that just be africans? (hopefully you're not falling into the pc trap of thinking all black people are described as african american).
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how about young kid w urinary problems but nothing else is wrong with the labs --min change dx

this is a good thread keep it going
 
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young woman w/lower abdominal pain, scant bloody discharge, and a promiscuous sexual history = ectopic pregnancy due to PID

aside: this may be the first truly helpful thread i've seen on here - props to whoever started it
 
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Homeless person- they either have a thiamine deficiency or drank ethylene glycol or methanol.

Someone dies unexpectedly after surgery with absolutely no reason given- halothane toxicity.
 
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golfman said:
This one is obvious. Alcoholic = Folate / Thiamine deficiency.

The reason I bring this up is: Why on earth don't they supplement Beer with Thiamine? I mean, they are already putting Vitamin D in milk, etc...

It's obviously a problem, so beer companies listen up! Put some thiamine in there. Or would that not work?
Click to expand...

I may be wrong, but I think many moons ago, I heard that acetaldehyde produced from alcohol dehydrogenase binds thiamine and was one of the reasons for thiamine deficiency. Probably should only be an issue if acetaldehyde dehydrogenase was overwhelmed, right?
 
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Kid living in a dilapidated building and is all cry-baby due to abdominal pain -Lead poisoning

House fires, arsonists- Cyanide poisoning.

Farmers: organophosphate poisoning.

Wool sorters or our mail boys- anthrax

I seem to like toxicology 🙂
 
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I think people are confusing "stereotypes" with "most common cause of."

The lines blur at times, but in general there is a difference.

For example:

Stereotype: Mail man = anthrax
MCC: Smoking = lung cancer

Anyway, carry on.
 
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