Silly medical trivia = cash on the side!

[cookypuss3]

I'm so excited I could just pee! I *finally* won Trivia Night at my local Irish pub tonight, after many weeks of dismal failure. $100 in crisp 20s in my pocket (initial investment = 2 Bud Lights, an order of fried ravioli, and ten bucks). Boo-yah!

I will have you know, the question that gave me the edge was: What do eccrine and apocrine glands secrete? YES. YES. YES. For real. At an Irish friggin' pub. The pub owner totally butchered both "eccrine" and "apocrine" but I could have cared less. I was over the moon in joy, awash with the warm fuzzy feeling of superiority. Who cares that I don't know which European city has the most bridges and canals? (For the inquiring mind, I thought it was Venice, but goddammit it was Amsterdam.)

And I almost won fifty bucks over the weekend, when my boyfriend's roommate (who manages a Discount Tire, but is a closet science geek on the side) wanted to bet me that pseudostratified columnar epithelium was only found in the esophagus. I wondered if he was smoking crack, but was more than happy to unload him of his cash. He chickened out at the last minute. Ah hell, even if we had officially bet, how could I take $50 from the man that put four new tires on my Jeep for the price of two?

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[yaah]

What do eccrine and apocrine glands secrete? YES. YES. YES. For real. At an Irish friggin' pub. The pub owner totally butchered both "eccrine" and "apocrine" but I could have cared less.

The answer, if I remember correctly, is "insulin."

I love trivia. I tend to do poorly because they always try to dumb down trivia games with a bunch of pop culture and fashion questions. Can you name all 5 original Backstreet Boys (were there five?)?? No, I can't. Do you know what 5 nations make up the permanent portion of the UN security council? Germany? WRONG!

Congratulations on your trivia win.

 

[yaah]

[He] ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

Kidneys were in his mind as he moved about the kitchen softly, righting her breakfast things on the humpy tray. Gelid light and air were in the kitchen but out of doors gentle summer morning everywhere. Made him feel a bit peckish.

Peckish, indeed. Hannibal Lector, eat your heart out.

Autopsy anyone?

Try the Rocky Mountain Oysters. I prepared them myself today. Served with sweetbreads.

 

[desmangt]

Here is some pathology trivia that might be useful when on interviews.

Q: Who was the first pathologist to use the ?frozen technique??
A: Dr. John Collins Warren from MGH

Q: What country recently suffered an epidemic of neuropathy and blindness due to malnutrition and tobacco use?
A: Cuba

Q: Who is considered the father of cytopathology?
A: Dr. Papanicolaou

Q: What institution had the first pathology residency program?
A: MGH

Q: What pathology department has the record for classifying the most diseases?
A: Mt. Sinai

Q: What hospital had the first pathology department?
A: Bellevue Hospital Medical School

Q: How can a pathologist estimate the range from which a bullet was fired?
A: if not close-contact, measure soot fouling and powder tattooing

Q: who is considered the father of cellular pathology?
A: Rudolph Virchow

 

[deschutes]

Q: What institution had the first pathology residency program?
A: MGH

The first pathology residency program?
Before MGH, there were no MDs being trained as pathologists??

I understand that the trivia questions are in an American context, but still.... *stumped*

Enlighten me!

 

[Apollyon]

Do you know what 5 nations make up the permanent portion of the UN security council? Germany? WRONG!

Congratulations on your trivia win.

US, UK, China, Russia, France.

(Let me look it up now...)

I was right! UN FAQ

 

[Matte Kudesai]

Here is some pathology trivia that might be useful when on interviews.

Q: Who was the first pathologist to use the ?frozen technique??
A: Dr. John Collins Warren from MGH

Q: What country recently suffered an epidemic of neuropathy and blindness due to malnutrition and tobacco use?
A: Cuba

Q: Who is considered the father of cytopathology?
A: Dr. Papanicolaou

Q: What institution had the first pathology residency program?
A: MGH

Q: What pathology department has the record for classifying the most diseases?
A: Mt. Sinai

Q: What hospital had the first pathology department?
A: Bellevue Hospital Medical School

Q: How can a pathologist estimate the range from which a bullet was fired?
A: if not close-contact, measure soot fouling and powder tattooing

Q: who is considered the father of cellular pathology?
A: Rudolph Virchow

Please keept the trivia coming.

 

[desmangt]

More Trivia!

Q: Average length of doctors visits?:
Female doctor with a female patient 23 minutes
Female doctor with a male patient 22 minutes
Male doctor with a female patient 19 minutes
Male doctor with a male patient 21 minutes

Q: Which one of the founders of cytopathology is still alive and practicing pathology today?
A: Leopold Koss at Albert Einstein in Bronx

Q: What institution and pathology department had the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes giving birth to the genetic engineering industry that we know of today?
A: Johns Hopkins

Q: Specialties with high percentages of female doctors:
Pediatrics 47 percent
Ob-Gyn 33 percent
Pathology 29 percent
Psychiatry 28 percent
Internal Medicine 26 percent

Q: Which single book would you recommend to practicing pathologists for breast pathology?
(173 pathologists responded)
A: AFIP Atlas 53 (36%)
Fechner 4 (2%)
Rosen 45 (31%)
Tavassoli 26 (17%)
Rosen (needle core bx) 4 (2%)
Someren 1 (0%)
Sloane 0 (0%)

Q: Who is known as the father of GI and liver pathology?
A: Dr. Hans Popper at Mt. Sinai

Q: At what institution did Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA?
A: University of Cambridge

Q: In which field of medicine do physicians have the longest life expectancy?
A: Pathology

Q: Where did Chargoff develop his famous Chargoff rule? (A=T, C=G)
A: Columbia University

Q: Who is the first female pathologist to become department chair in pathology?
A: Dr. Cecilia Fenoglio at the University of New Mexico, now in Cincinnati.

Q: Who was the father of forensic pathology?
A: Paulus Zacchias (1584-1659)

Q: Who is the founder of the first pediatric pathology department?
A: Lotte Strauss at Mt. Sinai

 

[desmangt]

The first pathology residency program?
Before MGH, there were no MDs being trained as pathologists??

I understand that the trivia questions are in an American context, but still.... *stumped*

Enlighten me!

It says on the MGH website that they have the first pathology residency program.

"First Residency Program
Dr. Wright was succeeded as Chief of Pathology by Dr. Tracy B. Mallory (a son of Dr. Frank B. Mallory) in 1926. One of Dr. Mallory?s first initiatives was to organize for the first time a residency training program in pathology. In 1935 Dr. Mallory succeeded Dr. Cabot as Editor of the Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1942 he formulated with Dr. Edward A. Gall, a widely used histological classification of lymphomas based on an analysis of 618 cases, and co-authored with his younger associate, Dr. Benjamin Castleman, numerous articles on diseases of the parathyroid gland. He also wrote an important paper on early carcinoma of the stomach. During World War II Dr. Mallory enlisted and became Chief Consultant in Pathology for the Mediterranean Theater. Classic papers on the pathology of acute tubular necrosis, traumatic shock, infectious hepatitis and other disorders related to war wounds emanated from this experience. During the Mallory years, Dr. Walter Lever, a dermatologist interested in pathology, wrote the first of numerous editions of his widely used book on dermatopathology."

http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/pathology/pathology_history.htm

 

[deschutes]

Q: Average length of doctors visits?:
Female doctor with a female patient 23 minutes
Female doctor with a male patient 22 minutes
Male doctor with a female patient 19 minutes
Male doctor with a male patient 21 minutes

The following conversation took place sometime in the course of the day...

Internist-wannabe#1: "But while you sit at your scope, we see patients hahahaha" etc.
deschutes: "Yeah, one patient for all of 5 minutes!"
Internist-wannabe#2: "Five minutes? That's too long!"

Q: Specialties with high percentages of female doctors:
Pathology 29 percent

I could get used to being special

😎

Q: In which field of medicine do physicians have the longest life expectancy?
A: Pathology

HAH! Despite all them sorry-@$$ jokes about formalin fumes!
It's official then - discharge summaries can kill ya.
This one is a keeper. desmangt do you have a source I can quote?

 

[desmangt]

That one about life expectancy was told to me from an attending. It was in response to me asking about the danger of formalin. His response was that surgeons have the lowest life expectancy. I just laughed and realized that dropping my goals of plastic surgery was completely a smart move. Just think of all the extra income you can make working while you are still 80 years old and loving your job. Compared to retired or dead at 65 as a surgeon. Anyone have any interesting pathology trivia? I find facts about ground breaking pathologists and their departments to be very exciting. Why can't that be me or one of us new up-and-coming pathologists? The field isn't that big and someone has to do it!

 

[cookypuss3]

The answer, if I remember correctly, is "insulin."

Apocrine and eccrine glands? Dear sir, the answer is sweat. Doesn't insulin come out of B-cells... and those make up an exo- or endocrine gland of some variety? That part I am fuzzy on. It's just a damn miracle that I remember ANYthing from physiology.

And as for the Bud Light and fried ravioli at the Irish pub: I had had the Molly Malone Fried Seafood Platter (Minus the Calamari Please) for the past four or five weeks in a row and wanted a little variety. As for the Bud Light, it's eighty million degrees in Arizona, and any beer heavier than a lager just doesn't work. Guinness is much better in cooler weather. And I've been on a really ridiculous Bud Light kick for a while. I think I'm switching to PBR next, however.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Apocrine and eccrine glands? Dear sir, the answer is sweat. Doesn't insulin come out of B-cells... and those make up an exo- or endocrine gland of some variety? That part I am fuzzy on. It's just a damn miracle that I remember ANYthing from physiology.

And as for the Bud Light and fried ravioli at the Irish pub: I had had the Molly Malone Fried Seafood Platter (Minus the Calamari Please) for the past four or five weeks in a row and wanted a little variety. As for the Bud Light, it's eighty million degrees in Arizona, and any beer heavier than a lager just doesn't work. Guinness is much better in cooler weather. And I've been on a really ridiculous Bud Light kick for a while. I think I'm switching to PBR next, however.

I bet yaah was joking with the "insulin" answer unless he missed that lecture in med school.

The beauty of Bud Light is that you can keep drinking and drinking and drinking it until you reach a steady state of drunkenness where your mental status is stably FUBAR and the rate of beer ingestion = rate of urine output. This is difficult to do with the more heavier beers (which are also more expensive). The heavier beers only result in a full stomach and "beer sh1ts."

 

[GeoLeoX]

frank. "go for a ride? that's a great idea!"

and

Q: Where did Chargoff develop his famous Chargoff rule? (A=T, C=G)
A: Columbia University

Not to be nit-picky, but as a former DNA jockey I have to mention that his name is Erwin Chargaff.

Geo

 

[Doctor B.]

Nice Blue Velvet ref, crepitus. "I can hear your f-ing radio you stupid s**t!"