PPE
What does PPE stand for?
Personal Protective Equipment
PV = nRT
Real Formula (The Ideal Gas Law — shows up constantly in gas passages.)
What does the medical suffix -itis mean?
What is inflammation
This specialist thrives on 3am deliveries, is permanently attached to a pager, and treats "sleep" as a theoretical concept.
OB/GYN
As a hospital volunteer, your single most-requested task is pushing this wheeled object out to the parking lot for discharged patients.
Wheelchair
At the end of which century were gloves first used in surgery?
19th century (first used in 1889)
F = kq₁q₂ / r
Made-Up Gibberish (Coulomb's Law needs r² in the denominator, not r.)
What is the term for the absence of breathing?
Apnea
This specialist does 15-minute mole checks back-to-back, has impeccable skin themselves, and quietly funds their lifestyle with cosmetic Botox on the side.
Dermatology
As a Phlebotomist, this is the one body part patients most often warn you, unhelpfully, "rolls."
Veins
Why are medical gloves colors like blue or green?
To give high visual contrast so tears and biological contamination are easy to spot
n₁ sin θ₁ = n₂ cos θ₂
Made-Up Gibberish (Snell's Law pairs sine with sine on both sides, not sine with cosine.)
What is the term for an artificial opening in the trachea
What is a tracheostomy
This specialist genuinely believes most problems can be solved by cutting them out, argues with anesthesia about OR turnover time, and eats lunch in under four minutes.
General Surgery
As a Pharmacy Technician, you become fluent in reading doctors' handwriting, especially this frequently-illegible abbreviation meaning "as needed."
PRN
When donning a full set of standard PPE (gown, mask, goggles, and gloves), when are gloves put on?
The last step (correct order is gown, mask, goggles, gloves)
A = εlc
Real Formula (Beer-Lambert Law, relating absorbance to concentration.)
What is the muscle that is responsible for rotation of the head and neck?
What is the Sternocleidomastoid
This specialist has the calmest bedside manner in the hospital — mostly because their patients are unconscious — and controls the OR playlist.
Anesthesiology
As a CNA on night shift, you learn the hardest part of the job isn't the physical labor — it's staying alert during this repetitive task done every two hours on immobile patients.
repositioning/turning patients
Which type of mask is specifically designed to protect the wearer from inhaling tiny airborne particles?
A respirator (ex N95)
p² + 2pq + q² = 0
Made-Up Gibberish (Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium sets that sum equal to 1, not 0 — population genetics doesn't disappear that easily.)
What is the term for lack of smell?
What is Anosmia
This specialist treats every case like a detective novel, asks about your last three international trips before anything else, and gets genuinely excited about a "weird bug."
Infectious Disease
As a Scribe, this is the vague, catch-all diagnosis code physicians default to when they genuinely have no idea what's going on with the patient.
Unspecified, NOS