Clinical Medicine
This autoimmune condition presents with the "classic triad" of xerophthalmia, xerostomia, and arthritis; it is confirmed by a minor salivary gland biopsy showing lymphocytic infiltration.
What is Sjögren’s Syndrome?
This term describes the process of a patient voluntarily agreeing to a treatment after being informed of all potential risks, benefits, and alternatives.
What is Informed Consent?
This jolly, white-bearded character is known for wearing a red suit and delivering gifts from a sleigh pulled by reindeer.
Who is Santa Claus?
The "NY" in the logo of the New York Yankees is an example of this, a motif made by overlapping two or more letters.
What is a monogram?
This 17th-century philosopher and mathematician is famous for the dictum "Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am).
Who is René Descartes?
This specific murmur is a mid-diastolic rumble heard at the apex in patients with severe aortic regurgitation, caused by the regurgitant jet impacting the mitral valve leaflet.
What is an Austin Flint murmur?
Named after a 1976 court case, this "duty" requires mental health professionals to breach confidentiality if a patient poses a serious threat of violence to a specific, identifiable person.
What is the Tarasoff Duty (Duty to Warn)?
This New Year’s Eve tradition in NYC involves a giant glowing crystal ball sliding down a pole in this famous location.
What is Times Square?
This NYC island was the primary immigration station for the United States from 1892 to 1954, processing over 12 million people.
What is Ellis Island?
This physicist won the Nobel Prize in 1921, not for Relativity, but for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
Who is Albert Einstein?
In patients with Multiple Myeloma, these specific proteins are immunoglobulin light chains found in the urine that can cause light-chain cast nephropathy.
What are Bence-Jones proteins?
This Latin phrase, meaning "first, do no harm," is often incorrectly attributed to the original Hippocratic Oath but remains a core pillar of non-maleficence.
What is Primum non nocere?
This 2004 animated movie features a magical train that takes children to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
What is The Polar Express?
This 102-story Art Deco skyscraper was the tallest building in the world for 40 years until the North Tower of the World Trade Center was completed.
What is the Empire State Building?
This is the only country in the world that has a national flag that is not a quadrilateral
What is Nepal?
This rare but life-threatening complication of heparin therapy is caused by antibodies to the complex of heparin and Platelet Factor 4 (PF4).
What is Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT)?
This specific legal standard for medical malpractice requires proving four elements: Duty, Breach, Causation, and this "D-word" representing the resulting harm.
What are Damages?
In the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," these are the names of the two reindeer whose names mean "Thunder" and "Lightning" in German.
Who are Donner and Blitzen?
Which NYC borough is the most populous, which would be the 4th largest city in the US if it were its own city?
What is Brooklyn?
In the world of art, this 19th-century movement characterized by small, thin brushstrokes and an emphasis on light included artists like Monet and Renoir.
What is Impressionism?
In the context of acid-base disorders, this specific formula (1.5x[{HCO}_3^-] + 8 \pm 2) is used to determine if the respiratory compensation for metabolic acidosis is appropriate.
What is Winters’ Formula?
This ethics concept, used in organ transplant or disaster triaging, suggests that resources should be allocated to produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
What is Utilitarianism?
While Christmas is in the winter in NYC, it falls during this warm season in countries like Australia and South Africa.
What is Summer?
This 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park was created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan.
What is the High Line?
This is the world’s deepest lake, located in Siberia, containing about 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water.
What is Lake Baikal?