Are you smarter than a doctor?! I take an online medical quiz

Found this online medical quiz, and thought it would be fun to show off getting every question correct.... Didn't quite turn out that way!

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Thank you to the artists below that allow their backing music to be used, you are superstars:
Song 'Escapists' by The AutoDisko
Song 'First Day' by Huma-Huma

[RileysFilms]

Your neon sign is written in doctors font.

[MortemInteritum]

You told my favorite story about evidence-based medicine at 2:07. The worst part of this story: Ignaz Semmelweis, the person who researched the death rates on the maternity ward in Vienna, was a junior doctor at the time. And even though he managed to lower the death rates from 13% to around 1% by making medical students wash their hands in calcium chlorite, nobody believed him - medicine was (and sometimes still is) more eminence-based than evidence-based. All the professors still believed in the miasma theory (and felt like he had undermined the authority of the doctors). Semmelweis eventually lost his job, had to move back to Hungary and died in a psychiatric hospital (supposedly as the result of an intrigue.)

[ThePigKnight]

Where's the patella?
Dr. Hope: "On the head."
Me: *Unsubscribed*
Dr. Hope: "I'm just kidding."
Me: "You got me good." *Resubscribed.*

[mf]

I always remembered niacin was B3 because it takes 3 lines to make a capital N. It's weird the things that stick with you, haha.

[Felipera_]

A healthy red blood cell lives for at least around 13 episodes

[Dmorris]

I’m watching this on the train and Ash-prin broke me 😂 love the puns

[DrHopeSickNotes]

Hey! I thought I'd do a nice easy video today; turns out the quiz was hard, the studio was super hot and the editing took me ages.... Still hope you all enjoy! Leave a comment if you scored more than me... and you can take over the channel!
CORRECTIONS TO A COUPLE OF ANSWERS BELOW:

Q9: Which is the LEAST common common form of skin cancer? The answer is melanoma. I accidentally talk about the question as 'the MOST common type of skin cancer' which is as I state Basal Cell Carcinoma; I mark myself correct as error carried forward :) Thanks to everyone that pointed this out, and also this highlights you must ALWAYS READ THE QUESTION!

Q11. Which dangerous infectious disease has been extinct ‘in the wild’ since the late 1970’s? Apparently the two places with Smallpox stored are in USA and Russia.

And other corrections, let me know!

[XXCY]

I never understand what statistical questions like the one about aids or historical anecdotes ought to have to do with the medical knowledge you use as a doctor. You ask me if that mole is cancerous, I might be able to tell you right away - and treat you properly. You ask me how many people die by rabies each year or if Aesculap was egyptian in origin, I'll shrugg and still not be a worse doctor for it.

[abdullaa.]

I only knew the Aspirin question because I learned that it's it's a Salicylic Acid derivative In O-Chem and I remember reading a while back that Salicylic Acid was derived from the Willow Bark.

[cpcoultertweedles]

I knew the asprin one. You can get willow bark supplements for horses to help with pain and inflammation, and horses will also self-medicate and forage on willow bark if they are feeling ill.

[xDarkTrinityx]

I was entertained. Though that was more like weird trivia than anything a doctor would actually know..

[wardm]

I'm an American with Google. Of course I'm smarter than my doctor. Expertise is overrated; that's why we put the orange man in charge.

[Alphasnowbordergirl]

There is a manga called Jin that's about a modern doctor that goes to the 1850s (Japan) and treats them with modern medical techniques (western medicine), performing procedures, creating penicillin from scratch, treating syphilis, with tools that don't quite exist yet. I hope you take a read. I know there's a Japanese drama of it but I don't know much about that. When I read the manga, I felt there was so much medical knowledge being jammed into my head that I felt like a doctor by the end.

[MissSuperNail]

I'm a medical student and would agree that basal cell carcinoma is one of "the best cancers to have", but I've seen a severe case were the tumor had grown into the spine leaving the spinal column exposed for all of us to see and paralyzing the patient from the waist down. It had also spread to the brain making the patient psychotic. It can definitely do a lot of damage if untreated.

[DogCompanion]

I was hoping you'd explain positive and negative feedback systems - it was the one thing I could never grasp and understand in school and university...Google never helped haha!!
You should do more of these types of quizzes - It gives you the opportunity to explain a lot of terminology. Keep up the great work :D

[laraanne]

Last year I had a guest lecture from a guy who has Huntington's. He didn't have any symptoms yet, but his mother did. Must be awful to see your future like that.
He told a story about how his mother was not super happy when they he was expecting his third child, because it meant she could't baby sit for a while. She used to be a kindergarten teacher, but had to stop working after she bruised a couple of children by holding them to tight. She didn't have the control over her muscles anymore. So sad. It's the worst combination of Parkinson and Alzheimer. Even worse is that the patients know they will get sick years before it actually happens.

[scarybrowncub]

I like how frank you are, doing the test truthfully even though you could've cheated and googled it in between questions and nobody would be the wiser. Nothing more reassuring than having an honest doctor.

[juampan]

I'm also a doctor and got the same result.

[boxedparadoxII]

Your advise on picking the longer answer is fast becoming obsolete. The National board of Medical Examiners actually advise the question makers to prevent the longest or most accurate description to be the correct answer, as test savvy students then can ace a test, without ever know a thing about the subject. I've just had to make my first MCQ test for first year pharmacy students, and I took great pains to make the right answer of middle length or same length as the rest. When I analyzed the test,  it was pretty clear that many students just chose the longest answer as a default. Just a heads up for any future students.

[Starlightean]

This is pretty funny. Especially when you guessed the first time and it turned out correct. I wouldn't use that logic though. To be honest I think your new sign makes your room look like a masseuse office... and not the legal kind :'D