
Wynnewood, PA Copyright © 2020 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. I call on all humanity everywhere, starting right here in America (Amerigo Vespucci), to give eponyms the treatment they deserve: a complete boycott (Charles Boycott). Eponyms are worse than nicotine (Jean Nicot), and we need to abandon eponyms in favor of a new naming algorithm (mangled from Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi). You may argue that there were no women candidates for eponyms who were passed over in favor of men, but that would only prove you are a dunce (John Duns Scotus) and need a good mentor (Mentor, guardian of Telemachus).Īnd please do not appeal to the importance of knowing the history of our profession I should not be forced to reference historical events that I do not like. The chauvinism alone is enough to boil one's blood (Nicolas Chauvin). My thoughts were rudely interrupted by the memory of a recent patient with a shrapnel injury (Henry Shrapnel), but I quickly returned to consider the injustices of eponyms. As I drove along the macadam (John Loudon McAdam), I was mesmerized (Franz Mesmer) by the thought of removing eponyms, not only from medicine but from all of life.

I remembered that my vehicle needs a new 12-volt battery (Alessandro Volta). I did not see any Lamborghinis (Ferruccio Lamborghini), Ferraris (Enzo Ferrari), or DeLoreans (John DeLorean, or Christopher Lloyd). I hopped into my EMS physician responder, which happens to be a Ford Expedition (Henry Ford), and passed Teslas (Nikola Tesla), Porsches (Ferdinand Porsche), and a Mercedes (Mercedes Jellinek) diesel (Rudolf Diesel). The milk I drank was pasteurized (Louis Pasteur), so that I don't get listeriosis (Joseph Lister). I had Eggs Benedict for breakfast (Lemuel Benedict), with some fruit on the side: clementines (Pere Clement), Bartlett pears (Enoch Bartlett), and Granny Smith apples (Marie Ana Smith). Lankenau), still wincing a bit because typing aggravates my recent Hutchinson fracture (Jonathan Hutchinson).
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I'm typing on my Mac (named for an apple, which was named after John McIntosh) sitting in Lankenau Medical Center (John D. Or, you can just connect to a Gamecube with a Pokemon game, and that will fix the problem. (“De-eponymizing Anatomical Terminology,” EMN. According to some sources, as well as my friends, if you trade with LG/FR/E, then press Select + B or Start + B, it will bring up a menu that will allow you to fix the problem. Procalcitonin: Risk Assessment in COVID-19 Bacterial Co-InfectionĪs I write this from my office in Wynnewood (Thomas Wynne, physician to William Penn), Pennsylvania (William Penn), nestled along Cobbs Creek (William Cobb, Penn's miller), I am struck by the article by Buttner, et al., decrying the use of eponyms.


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