A Bone to Pick
The longest bone in the human body.
What is the Femur?
What is Jinkies?
A man walks in with shortness of breath, chest pain, a feeling of impending doom, and an abnormal EKG.
What is a Heart Attack?
What is a White Blood Cell?
Propofol, a milky white amnesiac and sedative drug, is commonly used in surgery and in the ER to put people to sleep, and also caused the overdose death of this singer.
Who is Michael Jackson?
Uh oh, you fell on your shoulder and now it looks a bit...wrong. You may have experienced this, with the medial term for it being “subluxation.”
What is a Dislocation?
Dr. Walsh was born in 2006. Sadly, 2006 is also the year that the crocodile hunter passed away after being injured by this aquatic creature.
What is a Stingray?
A man is brought in by his family because they noticed him slurring, not being able to raise both arms, and a droopy eyelid.
What is a Stroke?
Not to be confused with the similarly-named Thymus, this organ persists throughout your whole life and is located in your neck.
What is the Thyroid?
Tom Hanks was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at age 36, where the body develops a resistant to insulin. He also costarred with a volleyball (which later sold for 308,000 USD) in this 2000 movie.
What is Cast Away?
A common med school mnemonic for this tight-knit group of 8 bones is “Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can’t Handle.”
What are the Carpal (wrist) bones?
In the Nomad Stages production of Hadestown, Dr. Walsh played one of the Fates, based off those goddesses of the same name in Greek mythology. In mythology (and in the Disney movie Hercules), one sister would cut a length of golden thread, an action which symbolized a person’s this.
What is Death?
A man comes in with fever, shortness of breath, and coughing up green sludge. On X-ray, the radiologist reports “consolidations” - opaque areas in the lobes of the lungs where air should be.
What is pneumonia?
The purpose of this organ is to filter out old red blood cells - but if it malfunctions, don’t worry! It can be removed.
What is the Spleen?
Lady Gaga suffers from fibromyalgia, which is a disease causing chronic pain, fatigue and mind fog. Her real name is Stefani Germanotta, and she got her stage name from the title of this classic Queen song.
What is Radio Ga Ga
The common, direct translation names for the tiniest bones in the human body, located in the ears, with the Latin names being “stapes, incus, malleus.” (Name 1, kudos if you name all three)
What is the Stirrup, Anvil, and Hammer?
Dr. Walsh attends Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Fun fact, Kingston has the second most restaurants per capita on the continent! The city with the most is this American city, which also famous for its carnivals and unique heritage.
What is New Orleans?
A ten year old boy comes in with lower abdominal pain (at his lower right side), a fever, with nausea and vomiting. On ultrasound, there is local thickening of the bowel walls.
What is appendicitis?
This power tool was originally created to aid in childbirth - don’t ask me how, I don’t want to think about it.
What is a chainsaw?
Billy Joel cancelled all touring indefinitely in 2024 following a diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus - caused by excess cerebrospinal fluid on the brain leading to dementia-like symptoms. Before his career in music, a broken nose ended his stint in this sport - which he was surprisingly good at!
What is Boxing?
This is the only bone in the human body that is not connected to another bone.
What is the Hyoid Bone?
One time, Dr. Walsh and Me, Dr. Reid, sat down and watched the entirely of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Although we streamed it on Netflix, it originally aired on this TV Network.
What is Nickelodeon?
A previously healthy women presents after an intense spin class in metro St. John’s, with muscle pain, confusion and dark red pee.
What is Rhabdomyolysis?
Segments of this organ are called the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
What is the Small Intestine?
In the movie “The Princess Bride,” Fezzik is played by Andre the Giant, who suffered from Acromegaly, caused by a brain tumor releasing human growth hormone. Andre is from France, but Fezzik is from this real-life country, which borders Greece, Bulgaria, Iraq, and the Red Sea.
What is Turkey?