Pharmacy
This common diuretic was named because it lasts six hours.
What is Lasix?
This grammy award winning vocalist served as a nurse’s aide at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
Who is Tina Turner?
This disease caused an outbreak in the city of Philadelphia in 1793 that resulted in the death of more than 9% of the population.
What is yellow fever?
This brand name drug, which sounds like it involves a pregnant animal, is actually made from pregnant horse urine.
What is Premarin?
This ICU nurse was half of a famous mother/daughter country music duo
Who was Naomi Judd?
This pandemic which began in 1918 infected five hundred million people and killed fifty million.
What is the Spanish Flu?
Michael Jackson's personal physician was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for improperly administering this surgical anesthetic as a sleep aid.
What is propofol?
As a teenager, this singer may have been "walkin' (home) after midnight" after she worked at the soda fountain in Gaunt's Drugstore in Winchester, Virginia.
Who was Patsy Cline?
Roughly 3.9 million deaths occurred this year making it the deadliest year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is 2021?
This drug used for heart failure comes from the foxglove plant.
What is digoxin?
Before he created and starred on Dr. Ken, he got his M.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and became an internal-medicine physician at Los Angeles’ Kaiser Permanente
Who is Ken Jeong?
This virus spread more-or-less undetected until 1981, when a virulent pneumonia and rare cancer called Kaposi’s Sarcoma began to crop up among gay men in the US. By year’s end, there were 270 reported cases. 121 of them had already died.
What is HIV?
This famous author worked as a pharmacy technician during WWI.
Who is Agatha Christie?
This "Friends" star went to college to study psychobiology. She hoped to join her neurologist father in his medical research.
Who is Lisa Kudrow?
Roughly 1/4 of the world's population is estimated to be infected with this bacteria, though most do not know it.
What is tuberculosis?