DWB
Original name of Doctors Without Borders (hint: french)
What is Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)?
The only place outside of the Americas that we've traveled to. Capital: Hanoi (2019)
What is Vietnam?
This condition is characterized primarily by seizures
What is epilepsy?
This is what EKG stands for
What is Electrocardiogram?
This STD is commonly found in both human and koala populations
What is Chlamydia?
DWB got this recognition in 1999
What is the Nobel Peace Prize
Our most recent trip, with International Medical Relief this summer (2021)
What is Colorado?
This autoimmune disease in which one of the symptoms is a "butterfly" rash of the face?
What is lupus?
Prefix cephal- meaning
What is related to the head?
Number of calories in a Big Mac (+/- 100)
What is 563 calories?
The virus that prompted DWB assistance in West Africa in 2014
What is Ebola Virus?
One of our earliest trips was to this Central American country (Capital: San Jose) (2015)
What is Costa Rica?
This highly contagious condition is characterized by violent, uncontrollable coughing? (Often deadly for babies/infants)
What is whooping cough?
The small functional unit of the kidney that helps in filtration
What is a nephron?
US Life Expectancy (+/- 3 years)
What is 78.5 years?
Location of DWB headquarters today
What is Geneva, Switzerland
Despite our cancelled 2020 trip, we've been to this country once back in 2013
These 2 mutated genes are commonly associated with Breast and Ovarian Cancer
What are BRCA1 and BRCA2?
If a patient requests a DNR, this is what they want
What is a Do Not Resuscitate order?
Speed of a human sneeze (+/- 10 mph)
100 mph
Year DWB was first organized (+/- 5 yrs)
What is 1971?
This is the only country we've been to twice (2014 and 2018) (I can't give the capital because it would be too obvious)
What is Guatemala?
This condition is characterized by the "clouding over" of the lens of the eye
What are cataracts?
Meaning of the term Zoonotic disease
What is a disease transmissible to humans from animals?
This is the number of questions found on the MCAT (+/- 10)
230