Radiology

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1. So, you're the new radiologist at the hospital, which is kind of a problem, since you slept through medical school and don't know your cranium from your endocardium. That's all right, the rules here are pretty simple. You put your patients in the x-ray machine (that's what radiology is, right?), and what you see on the screen is a bunch of fractures. Except they're not bone fractures, they're word fractures. Your first job is to figure out what the words mean. If you had gone to medical school, you would know that it's easy to just sound the words out to figure out what the word or phrase actually is. Next, you need to diagnose the patient. Figure out the common bond between the fractured words and phrases, and use them to distinguish your patient's disease. Here's an example: Patient #1 presents the following fractures when exposed to radiation: Some air Ought um When tar Spar ring Pronounce the words aloud, figure out what the common bond is, and use the clues to diagnose your first patient. Dengue fever Pneumonia Turner syndrome Seasonal allergies

2. Think you've got it? Remember, figure out what the fracture is, then figure out what the words have in common to make your diagnosis. Patient #2 presents the following fractures when exposed to radiation: Frieze sing Fridge id Throw sin Aunt are ticker Given the symptoms, you inform your patient that he is afflicted with which of the following diseases? Salmonella Malaria Common cold Sleeping sickness

3. Patient #3 presents the following fractures when exposed to radiation: Char truce Lay man Goal done roared Son flaw were Which viral disease should you treat the patient for? Influenza Chicken pox Yellow fever Measles

4. Patient #4 presents the following fractures when exposed to radiation: Too mist own Saw cough ugh us Saw limb Awe steer From which autoimmune disease is the patient most likely suffering? Graves' Disease Lupus Sweet Syndrome Celiac

5. Patient #5 presents the following fractures when exposed to radiation: Pie seize Heir ease Tore us Jam an eye After radiology, you immediately you call in a specialist, knowing that your patient also probably suffers which of the following ailments? Cancer Mumps Arrythmia Diabetes

6. Patient #6 presents the following fractures when exposed to radiation: Coo weight Daze art she healed Said dom who sane Eye rack Which of the following diseases would you expect to afflict your patient? Schizophrenia Scarlet fever Gulf War Syndrome Anthrax

7. Patient #7 presents the following fractures when exposed to radiation: Tee chars Fie or fie tars Pole ease Hail pores Which "disease-in-the-news" are you forced to diagnose in the patient? SARS Ebola AIDS Swine flu

8. Patient #8 presents the following fractures when exposed to radiation: ____ Paw aim mint ____ stay heirs Aye door _____ What or sheep _____ Figuring out the common bond and filling in the blanks should reveal that your patient has which of the following genetic disorders? Tay-Sachs disease Down Syndrome Color blindness Hemophilia

9. Patient #9 presents the following fractures when exposed to radiation: Eye run hoarse Yeah an keys Bays bawl Gray ends lamb You are forced to inform your patient that she suffers from which disease, which is sometimes named after a famous person? Huntington's Disease Lou Gehrig Disease Parkinson's Disease Cushing's Disease

10. Patient #10 presents the following fractures when exposed to radiation: Bee egg been All are miss All exam dear gram ___ Ten ten nab you elation Which muscular disorder could you diagnose, given those symptoms? Muscular dystrophy Bell's palsy Tetanus Botulism