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This tool was implemented worldwide in an effort to reduce surgical errors and deaths
What is a surgical checklist?
Researchers collected data for 12 cancers in 175 countries with BMI and and diabetes prevalence figures from 2002 to 2012 based on this assumption about cancer
It takes at least 10 years for cancer to develop
Microbes with enhanced morbidity and mortality due to multiple mutations
What are superbugs?
Once treatable with penicillin, this sexually transmitted infection has now become drug-resistant.
What is Neisseria gonorrhoeae?
In 2007, this surgeon and writer began a study to determine whether a 19‑item “checklist” might reduce human errors during surgery
Who is Atul Gawande?
Americans with serious mental illnesses die on average this many years earlier than the general population (Will accept any answer within the range given)
What is 15 to 30 years?
This region of the world is disproportionately impacted by antimicrobial resistance.
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
Prozac works by selectively inhibiting this neurotransmitter's reuptake
What is serotonin
Nearly 6 percent of global cancers are attributable at least in part to these two conditions
What are obesity and diabetes?
Name one of the three countries mentioned in the article in which where Dr. Gawande's checklist experiment was performed (other than the US)
India, Canada, Tanzania
A 2017 epidemiological study found Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) incidence in the US is most strongly correlated with this variable
What is socioeconomic status?
This kind of "fake" surgery would be considered unethical today but helped reveal the extent of the placebo effect.
What is sham surgery?
According to Dr. Pearson-Stuttard this biological mechanism may be linking obesity/diabetes to cancer?
What is exposure to high insulin levels or insulin resistance?
"By 2035, because of increases in obesity and diabetes, there could be a 20% increase in _____'s cancer and a 30% increase for ______"
Men, women
Antimicrobial resistance includes resistance to drugs used to treat these four types of infections.
What are bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses?
Despite the rise of antibiotic resistance, this STD is still treatable with basic penicillin.
What is syphilis?
This term describes when physicians attribute patients’ physical symptoms to their mental illness, rather than another issue.
What is diagnostic overshadowing?
Due to increases in diabetes and obesity, researchers project that these three particular cancers will rise in incidence. Name one of them.
Gallbladder, liver, endometrium
These four microbes are the "superbugs" discussed by Tim during our presentation.
What are Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Carbapenem-resistant enterococcus (CRE), Clostridium difficile (CDIF), and Neisseria gonorrhoeae
This class of drugs, developed in the 1980s, lowers LDL cholesterol and helps shrink plaque in arteries.
What are statins?