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In which country did Christiaan Barnard perform the world's first successful human heart transplant?
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Which English pathologist first described a lymph-node cancer in 1832 that was named for him 33 years later?
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Which 16th-century French barber-surgeon, famed for treating battlefield wounds, is called the Father of Modern Surgery?
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In 1864, who became the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States?
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Which Oscar-winning actor played the real-life physician 'Patch' Adams in the 1998 film?
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Which Greek god of healing holds the single-snake staff used as the symbol of medicine?
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Founded in 1765, which Ivy League school operated the first medical college in the American colonies?
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In 1967, South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first successful human-to-human transplant of which organ?
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In what year did William Morton's famous ether demonstration take place at Massachusetts General Hospital, creating 'Ether Day'?
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In which U.S. state is the 1990s TV series 'Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman' set?
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Which Chinese scientist won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering artemisinin, the antimalarial drug?
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Which French physician invented the stethoscope in 1816 by rolling a tube of paper?
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Which British actor plays the pain-killer-addicted genius diagnostician in 'House M.D.'?
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Which American obstetrician and co-founder of NARAL later reversed course to become a leading pro-life activist?
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The rapper Dr. Dre was a founding member of which pioneering gangsta rap group?
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What is the real name of the children's author who wrote under the pen name 'Dr. Seuss'?
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What is the first name of Sherlock Holmes's physician companion, Dr. Watson?
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Which American pediatrician revolutionized parenting with his 1946 best-seller 'The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care'?
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What one-word nickname does Captain Kirk use for Dr. Leonard McCoy in 'Star Trek'?
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Which Edinburgh obstetrician introduced chloroform anesthesia to childbirth in 1847?
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Which 19th-century Viennese surgeon performed the first successful gastrectomy in 1881?
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What is the real full name of the hospital clown-doctor nicknamed 'Patch' Adams?
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Which 19th-century French physiologist coined the concept of 'milieu intรฉrieur', the forerunner of homeostasis?
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In which Italian city did Mondino de Luzzi perform the first public human dissection for medical instruction around 1315?
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In what year did Alexander Fleming first observe the antibacterial mold that became penicillin?
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A doctor who specializes in treating children is called a what?
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Who is traditionally considered the 'Father of Medicine' in Ancient Greece?
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Which German physician described a language-comprehension brain region in 1874 that bears his name?
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What is the nickname of Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce, the martini-loving surgeon on 'M*A*S*H'?
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In the long-running BBC series 'Doctor Who', what is the name of the Doctor's time-traveling ship?
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Which English country doctor performed the first successful smallpox vaccination on a boy named James Phipps in 1796?
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Which American biologist shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for co-discovering the double helix structure of DNA?
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Which Hungarian doctor was ridiculed in the 1840s for insisting physicians wash their hands before delivering babies?
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Which American neurologist won the 1997 Nobel Prize for discovering prions, the infectious proteins behind mad cow disease?
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Which London physician traced an 1854 cholera outbreak to a specific water pump on Broad Street?
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Which U.S. Army physician confirmed in 1900 that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes?
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What color coat is traditionally worn by doctors in Western hospitals?
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Which British surgeon authored the classic 1858 anatomy textbook that shares its name with a TV drama?
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In what year was the American Medical Association founded?
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Ben Carson, the former U.S. presidential candidate, was a world-renowned doctor in which surgical specialty?
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What is the name of the corset-wearing 'sweet transvestite' scientist in 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'?
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Which Spanish neuroscientist's 1906 Nobel win for the 'neuron doctrine' laid the groundwork for modern brain science?
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What is the name of the bald, pinky-raising antagonist played by Mike Myers in the 'Austin Powers' films?
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Which medieval Jewish physician served as personal doctor to Saladin's vizier and wrote the 'Guide for the Perplexed'?
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In which South African city did Christiaan Barnard transplant a heart into Louis Washkansky on 3 December 1967?
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Which American biochemist won the 1993 Nobel Prize for inventing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?
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Which beloved sitcom followed U.S. Army doctors at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War?
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Which Austrian neurologist founded psychoanalysis and introduced concepts like the id, ego, and superego?
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What is the title for a doctor who performs operations inside a patient's body?
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Which Dutch physiologist invented the first practical electrocardiograph machine, earning the 1924 Nobel Prize?
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Which Scottish scientist accidentally discovered penicillin in 1928?
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Which formerly enslaved man became recognized as the first African-American formally practicing medicine in the United States in the 1780s?
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In the 'Back to the Future' film series, what is the nickname of Marty McFly's eccentric scientist friend?
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Which Minnesota clinic, founded by the sons of a Civil War surgeon, became one of the world's most famous medical centers?
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Which African-American surgeon performed one of the first documented successful open-heart surgeries in 1893?
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Which four-armed, mechanical-tentacled Spider-Man villain is a brilliant nuclear physicist in his original origin?
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Which volatile chemical was used as the first general surgical anesthetic, demonstrated at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846?
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Which hospital, founded in 1736 and still running, is the oldest public hospital in the United States?
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Which American physician developed the first successful polio vaccine, announced in 1955?
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What is the last name of the Simpson family's chuckling, bow-tied physician in Springfield?
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Which English physician first described a kidney disorder in 1827 that bears his name?
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Whose cancerous cervical cells, taken without consent in 1951, became the immortal 'HeLa' cell line used in medical research?
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In 1849, which woman became the first to earn a medical degree in the United States?
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Which Swiss-French bacteriologist, a student of Pasteur, discovered the plague bacterium now named after him?
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Which Boston dentist publicly demonstrated ether anesthesia during surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846?
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Which American surgeon, known as the 'Father of Neurosurgery', pioneered brain tumor removal and gave his name to a pituitary disease?
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Which German physician isolated the tuberculosis bacterium in 1882 and founded the field of bacteriology?
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Which English molecular biologist proposed the 'central dogma' and shared the 1962 DNA Nobel Prize?
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What branch of medicine focuses on the study and treatment of cancer?
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Whose 1952 X-ray image 'Photo 51' was critical to solving DNA's helical structure, though she wasn't included in the Nobel?
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Which Australian pharmacologist turned Fleming's penicillin mold into a mass-produced drug, sharing the 1945 Nobel Prize?
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Which Georgia country doctor secretly performed the first surgery using ether as anesthesia in 1842?
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What word describes a doctor who specializes in the medical care of older adults?
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Which southern Italian town was home to Europe's earliest organized medical school, flourishing by the 10th century?
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Which type of mental health doctor holds a medical degree and can prescribe medication?
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Which Australian physician drank a bacterial culture to prove that Helicobacter pylori causes stomach ulcers?
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Which German physician shared the 1908 Nobel Prize for developing 'Salvarsan', the first effective drug against syphilis?
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Which American anesthesiologist created the scoring system used to assess the health of newborns within one minute of birth?
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Which infamous Nazi physician at Auschwitz was dubbed the 'Angel of Death' for his cruel human experiments?
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Which German physicist's accidental 1895 discovery of X-rays earned the first Nobel Prize in Physics and transformed diagnostic medicine?
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Which U.S. Army surgeon gained medical fame in the 1820s by studying digestion through a permanent fistula in a wounded fur trapper?
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Which Harvard-trained physician wrote 'The Andromeda Strain' and created the TV hit 'ER'?
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In Mary Shelley's novel, what is the first name of Doctor Frankenstein?
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Dr. John Carter and Dr. Mark Greene were main characters on which 1990s NBC medical drama?
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What flat wooden stick does a doctor use to press down on your tongue when checking your throat?
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Which ABC drama stars Freddie Highmore as an autistic-savant surgical resident named Shaun Murphy?
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Which German pathologist discovered the first synthetic sulfa drug, Prontosil, earning the 1939 Nobel Prize?
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Which Canadian-born physician, a founding professor at Johns Hopkins, is often called the 'Father of Modern Medicine'?
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A neurologist specializes in diseases of which bodily system?
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In which U.S. city is the long-running medical drama 'Grey's Anatomy' set?
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A doctor who specializes in pregnancy and childbirth is called an?
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Which French virologist shared a 2008 Nobel Prize for co-discovering the human immunodeficiency virus?
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In which 1964 Stanley Kubrick film does Peter Sellers play three roles, including a wheelchair-bound ex-Nazi scientist?
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Which Canadian physician co-discovered insulin in 1921 and shared the 1923 Nobel Prize?
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Which type of doctor is most likely to set a broken bone?
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In what year did Andreas Vesalius publish 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica', overturning ancient anatomy?
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Which Flemish anatomist's 1543 book 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica' overturned Galen's anatomy with hands-on dissection?
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Which French physician identified the speech-production region of the brain in 1861 after autopsying a patient called 'Tan'?
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Which 19th-century German physician coined 'omnis cellula e cellula' and is often called the Father of Pathology?
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Which French virologist was the female co-discoverer of HIV, sharing the 2008 Nobel Prize?
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Which actor portrayed the title villain in the 1962 James Bond film 'Dr. No'?
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What famous oath, historically attributed to an Ancient Greek physician, do many doctors recite upon graduation?
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Which Renaissance Swiss-German physician-alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim, pioneered the use of chemicals in medicine?
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Which English physician first classified the intellectual disability now named for him in 1866?
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Which French physician famously unchained the mentally ill at Paris's Bicรชtre and Salpรชtriรจre asylums in the 1790s?
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Which Canadian thoracic surgeon died in 1939 while treating wounded soldiers in Mao Zedong's Eighth Route Army?
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What is the common English name of the humanitarian group 'Mรฉdecins Sans Frontiรจres'?
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Which 19th-century French neurologist, who taught Freud, is regarded as the founder of modern neurology?
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What is the full name of the sarcastic attending physician who mentors J.D. on 'Scrubs'?
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What does the letter pair 'EKG' stand for in the diagnostic test doctors use to measure heart rhythms?
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Which Russian playwright, author of 'The Cherry Orchard', was also a practicing physician who called medicine his 'lawful wife'?
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Which Maryland university, founded in 1876, pioneered the American research hospital and the four-year medical school model?
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In what year did Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond co-found Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the American colonies?
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Which Persian polymath wrote 'The Canon of Medicine', a standard European medical textbook through the 17th century?
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Which red, lobster-like alien serves as the bumbling doctor at Planet Express in 'Futurama'?
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Which type of imaging, commonly ordered by doctors, uses electromagnetic radiation to photograph bones?
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What is the real name of the mustached TV personality known as 'Dr. Phil'?
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Which Congolese gynecologist shared the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for treating survivors of wartime sexual violence?
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Which Swiss-American psychiatrist introduced the five stages of grief in her 1969 book 'On Death and Dying'?
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Which 17th-century English physician proved that blood circulates around the body in one direction?
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Which Austrian-American physician discovered the ABO blood groups in 1901, earning the 1930 Nobel Prize?
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Which medical instrument does a doctor place on a patient's chest to listen to the heart?
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The medical prefix 'dermato-' refers to which body organ?
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What is the Latin title of William Harvey's groundbreaking 1628 treatise on blood circulation?
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Which African-American surgical technician, working at Johns Hopkins without a medical degree, devised much of the blue-baby procedure?
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Which NBC sitcom followed Dr. John 'J.D.' Dorian and his pals at Sacred Heart Hospital?
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Which Johns Hopkins cardiac surgeon developed the 'blue baby' operation in the 1940s?
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In the U.S., what multi-year period of supervised, on-the-job hospital training follows medical school?
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Which English chemist first demonstrated nitrous oxide's pain-numbing effect in 1799, calling it 'laughing gas'?
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What red symbol on a white background is the internationally recognized emblem of medical and wartime humanitarian aid?
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Which American transplant surgeon performed the world's first successful human liver transplant in 1967?
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Which Bavarian psychiatrist identified the hallmark brain plaques of a dementia named after him in 1906?
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What was the name of the Canadian voyageur whose shotgun-wound stomach fistula made him a reluctant subject for decades of digestion experiments?
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In Robert Louis Stevenson's novella, who is Dr. Jekyll's sinister alter ego?
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Which Marxist revolutionary, executed in Bolivia in 1967, was trained in Buenos Aires as a medical doctor?
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Which famous New York City medical center shares its name with a biblical mountain?
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Which German physician coined the phrase 'like cures like' and founded homeopathy in 1796?
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Which British surgeon pioneered antiseptic surgery in the 1860s by spraying carbolic acid in operating rooms?
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Which prescription painkiller does Dr. Gregory House famously pop throughout 'House M.D.'?
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Dr. Stephen Strange is a sorcerer-surgeon hero in which superhero universe?
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A physician who specializes in eye care and eye surgery is called an?
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In which classic Nintendo game does a medical-themed plumber throw vitamin capsules at viruses?
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Which New Zealandโborn physicist-biophysicist was the third recipient of the 1962 Nobel for DNA's structure?
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Which Austrian-Canadian endocrinologist coined the medical concept of 'stress' in the 1930s?
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Which ancient Greek woman, writing around 200โ400 AD, is the earliest known female medical author?
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What swoon-worthy nickname did fans give Dr. Derek Shepherd on 'Grey's Anatomy'?
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What does the abbreviation 'MD' officially stand for?
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Which Greek physician of ancient Rome served emperors and wrote anatomy texts that dominated medicine for 1,400 years?
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In which U.S. city did the 'Ether Dome' witness the first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia?
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Which London apothecary-surgeon described a progressive tremor disorder in his 1817 'Essay on the Shaking Palsy'?
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