I am 16 going on 17
A nurse during the Crimean War (1854), she raised the standard for nursing and developed a nursing school.-
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The disease that killed more than 21 million people in 1918
What is influenza (Spanish flu) pandemic?
This viral disease was identified in 1981 and affected first the homosexual community.
What is AIDS?
First female to become a licensed physician in the US. Paved the way for women to attend medical school.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Discovered x-rays in 1895
Who is Wilhelm Roentgen?
Vaccination that was given to to military personnel and first responders to limit the effects of a bioterrorist attack in 2002
What was the smallpox vaccine?
This early female physician (and Saint!!!), wrote the first book about diseases and treatments
Who is Saint Abbess Hildegard?
This beloved Poem accurately describes the symptoms of the Great Plague of 1665.
What is" Ring Around The Posies" ?
This critical element was discovered in 1774
What is Oxygen ?
Clara Barton Founded the American Red Cross after what event in American History
What is the American Civil War?
Discovered and used insulin to treat diabetes in 1922
Who is Frederick Banting and Charles Best?
This was the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia.
What is the Netherlands?
This physician created the AWMA and paved the way for co-educational medical schools.
Who is Mary Putnam Jacobi ?
Invented the stethoscope in 1816
Who is Rene' Laennec?
The first 'test tube baby,' born in US happened at this medical school.
What is EVMS?
This pediatrician developed the gold standard for determining the health of a Newborn..
Who is Virginia Apgar?
This physician described the circulation of blood to and from the heart in 1628
Who is William Harvey?
Performed this first successful procedure in America on his wife.(1794)
What is a Cesarean Section?
This Nobel Prize winning discovery in 1930 save the lives of countless unborn children
What is the discovery of the ABO and Rh blood factors?
This physician very recently survived bilateral Pulmonary Emboli and is here to DIRECT this course!!!
Who is Dr. Jillian Paprota?
This cause of death in the 16th century led to the term Dead Ringers
What is Lead Poisoning?
What drug was given to both American and British troops to boost morale.
What is amphetamines ?
This physician identified the conscious and unconscious mind.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This CV surgeon performed the world's first successful Heart Transplant
Who is Christian Bernard?
This American physician was the Father of Gynecology?
Who is J. Marion Sims ?
This physician was recently elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the NRMP.
Who is Dr. Maria Padilla?