What's a...67?
Name of list of potentially inappropriate medications for use in older adults
What is Beer's list/critiera?
Starring Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, he smuggles unapproved pharmaceuticals for the treatment of his AIDS in this 2013 biographical drama
What is the Dallas Buyers Club?
Field of research that studies how genes affect a person’s response to drugs
What is pharmacogenomics?
Mineral composing kidney stones induced by infection with urease-splitting organisms
What are struvite? (carbonate apatite, triple phosphate, magnesium ammonium phosphate stones, NOT staghorn)
A fluid collection often found behind the knee, often asymptomatic, first described by an English physician.
What is a Baker's cyst?
Age-related sensorineural hearing loss primarily affects sounds in this range
What are high-frequency sounds? (>2 Khz)
Freddie Highmore portrays a young physician in this recent drama series known for a scene in which he repeats the phrase "I am a surgeon!"
What is The Good Doctor?
The likelihood a genotype will manifest as phenotype
What is penetrance?
Receptor competitively inhibited by flumazenil
What is the GABA receptor?
Benzo reversal agent
This endocrine disorder involves symptoms of salt craving, hyperpigmentation, and hyperkalemia but does not respond to an ACTH stimulation test
What is Addison's disease?
Term for the degenerative loss of muscle mass associated with aging
What is sarcopenia?
This 1975 psychological comedy-drama focuses on the antics of Randle McMurphy against Nurse Ratched
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
Prophylactic surgery indicated for patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 with RET proto-oncogene mutation
What is thyroidectomy?
Gas used to diagnose asthma by measuring fractional excretion
What is nitric oxide?
Excess gastrin production causes parietal cell release of gastric acid leading to peptic ulcer disease in this syndrome often associated with gastrinomas
What is Zollinger Ellison syndrome?
This primary hematopoietic group of disorders occurs most commonly in older adults
What are myelodysplastic syndromes/ myelodysplasias?
The Blalock-Thomas-Taussig Shunt, used in conditions like pulmonary atresia and tetralogy of Fallot, is the main focus of this 2004 biographic film
What is Something the Lord Made?
Most common HFE gene mutation
What is the C282Y (accept Cysteine-282-Tyrosine) mutation?
Heart failure therapy involving biventricular pacing to improve cardiac output
What is cardiac resynchronization (CRT)?
Class I indications include HFrEF <35% with LBBB morphology with a QRS>150
This is a syndrome of gastrointestinal bleeding from an angiodysplasia in the presence of aortic stenosis
What is Heyde's syndrome?
Caused by cleavage of vWF from high shear stress from AS.
Expected increase in the alveolar-arteriolar oxygen gradient for each decade of life
What is 1 mmHg?
This Northern Californian Hospital is the setting of recent 2025 film The Chaplain and the Doctor, as well as 2012 film The Waiting Room.
What is Highland Hospital?
Hematologic malignancy associated with translocation between chromosomes 15 and 17
What is acute promyelocytic leukemia?
Pharmaceutical agent used in rapid sequence intubation that decreases cortisol production for 24 to 48 hours
What is Etomidate?
Suppresses 11 beta hydroxylase in the adrenal cortex
First described by a French psychiatrist, this is a psychiatric disorder in which the person believes that a a friend, spouse, or other family member has been replaced by an identical impostor.
What is Capgras syndrome?