Westlake HOSA Officers
Medical Pop Culture
Medical Myths
Health Careers
Anatomy & The Body
100
This person currently serves as the President of the WHS HOSA chapter.
Who is Mckenzie Wilson?
100
In Marvel's Avengers, character Tony Stark has a glowing "Arc Reactor" in his chest to keep shrapnel from entering this vital organ, which in real life is protected by the sternum and rib cage.
What is the heart?
100
True or False: Cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis later in life.
What is False? (It just releases gas bubbles from the joint fluid).
100
This professional is often the first face you see at a clinic and handles vital signs, blood draws, and administrative work.
What is a Medical Assistant (MA)?
100
This is the largest organ of the human body, serving as your primary shield against outside germs.
What is the skin?
200
This person currently serves as the Parliamentarian of the WHS HOSA chapter.
Who is Dallas Sims?
200
While video games use this iconic red symbol on health packs to restore your character's life, using it in real-world games is actually a copyright violation of this global humanitarian organization.
What is the Red Cross?
200
A classic schoolyard myth claims that if you accidentally swallow this chewy treat, it will sit undigested in your stomach for exactly seven years.
What is chewing gum? (While your body can't digest the synthetic base, it moves through your digestive system at the normal rate of a few days).
200
These emergency professionals are the first to arrive at an accident scene to provide life-saving care on the way to the hospital.
What are EMTs (Emergency Medical Technicians) or Paramedics?
200
This is the largest artery in the human body, responsible for carrying oxygen-rich blood away from the heart to the rest of the body.
What is the aorta?
300
These people currently serve as the treasurers of the WHS HOSA chapter.
Who are Hannah Parker & Zaria Gipson?
300
In TV shows like Grey's Anatomy, characters use this electric-shock device to restore a normal rhythm to a heart in cardiac arrest.
What is a defibrillator (or AED)?
300
This legendary vision myth claims that eating massive amounts of this vegetable will give you excellent eyesight—a story originally spread as British military propaganda during World War II.
What are carrots?
300
This healthcare worker helps patients regain their movement, strength, and range of motion after a major injury or surgery.
What is a Physical Therapist (PT)?
300
This muscular valve or flap at the base of the tongue folds over your windpipe while you swallow to prevent food from entering your lungs.
What is the epiglottis?
400
These people currently serve as the Secretaries of the WHS HOSA chapter.
Who are Azuri Nelson & Raegan Greenaway?
400
In the Netflix anime Cells at Work!, different types of cells are personified as workers inside a human body; the main character is a Red Blood Cell whose job is to deliver packages of this vital element to the rest of the body.
What is oxygen?
400
A widespread medical myth claims that getting one of these routine preventative shots will actually give you the full-blown illness it is protecting against, when it actually just uses dead or weakened parts of a germ to train your immune system.
What is a vaccine/vaccination? (As always, get your regular vaccinations!)
400
If you break a bone playing sports, this specialized professional will take the X-ray or MRI image of your injury.
What is a Radiologic Technologist (or X-ray Tech)?
400
These microscopic, hair-like structures line the inside of your respiratory tract and sweep back and forth to push mucus and trapped dust away from your lungs.
What is cilia?
500
This person currently serves as the Vice President of Membership Duties of the WHS HOSA chapter.
Who is Jhelani Spivey?
500
Movies like The Matrix show humans being used as biological batteries because of a myth that we generate massive amounts of electricity, but the human body actually only generates about this many watts of power at rest.
What is 100 watts?
500
Many people believe that drinking milk or eating dairy while sick will actively produce more of this thick, sticky fluid in your throat, but studies show it only temporarily coats the lining of your mouth and does not create any extra buildup.
What is phlegm/mucus?
500
This expert studies the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in entire populations, like tracking a flu outbreak.
What is an Epidemiologist?
500
This small, pinecone-shaped gland located deep in the center of the brain produces the hormone melatonin, which regulates your body's internal clock and sleep-wake cycles.
What is the pineal gland?