Health Care Careers

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Health Care Careers

• Medical Jeopardy
• REMINDER YOU CAN NOT BE EXEMPT FROM THE EXAM TWO
  WEEKS IN A ROW, but you get to use the jeopardy
  points on the exam to curve your grade
• Never slam your buttons
• You can use your task sheet notes up to five
  points then put them away to go on.
• Every team must have at least one point to
  continue for everyone (breaking the ice)
• Dont hit a button and THEN look up the answer

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• Two colleges that issue Associates Degrees in the
  Houston/Fort Bend area

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• Houston Community College and Wharton County
  Junior College

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• It is the science of motion of the body

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• What is kinesiology?

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• It is the science of how joints of the body work

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• What is biomechanics?

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• What a geriatric periodontic oncologist treats

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• The main advantage of a private college vs. a
  state college

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• Smaller class size

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• The weakening of a body wall allowing internal
  organs to visibly protrude out

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• What is a hernia? (remember the baby with the
  belly button bump? Take class notes)

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• The fastest growing medical disease currently
  developing in the U.S.

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• What is diabetes?

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• A health care worker who deals with family
  divorce, abuse issues and other familial
  challenges

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• What is a social worker? (MSW degree)

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• The number of years a physical therapist must go
  to school beyond high school

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• What is eight? (Doctor of PT)

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• You earn an MD degree but want to practice
  advanced physical therapy. Name this new medical
  profession

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• Physiatry

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• Youll see this famous home in Agra

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• What is the Taj Mahal?

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• Root canal would most likely be performed by this
  specialist

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• What is an endodontist?

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• A specialist who treats gum disease

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• What is a periodontist?

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• A medical specialist who measures you for contact
  lenses

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• What is an optometrist? (OD)

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• The degree associated with one who defends you in
  court

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• What is a J.D.? (attorney/lawyer/ Juris Doctorate
  although law school is only 3 yrs))

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• The type of surgeon you would consult for skin
  grafting

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• What is a cosmetic/plastic surgeon? Secondarily,
  dermatologists if they are surgically trained.

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• To reattach the nerves of your finger together
  after severing it, you would consult this type of
  surgeon

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• What is a neurosurgeon?

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• He has had a license to kill and is a November
  Man currently.

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• Pierce Brosnan

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• You would like to deliver babies but dont want
  to spend 11 years of training to become an
  Ob/Gyn what career is for you?

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• What is a midwife? (obstetrical nurse) having a
  BSN, RN and two year obstetric nursing residency
  (90,000/yr. career)

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• The difference in duties of an OT vs. a PT

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• Occupational therapists train those with
  disabilities to learn to live independently and
  even get employable skills while physical
  therapists rehabilitate those suffering after
  trauma or surgery to better function physically

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• He is the most famous pediatric neurosurgeon who
  just retired, will be running for president and
  is the subject of the HBO movie Gifted Hands

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• Dr. Ben Carson

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• One year of college training in a field will
  generally make you a __________in that field
  while two years of training will usually make you
  a ____________in that same field (usually at
  double the pay) while four years will make you a
  ___________in the field

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• 1 year of collegeaide or assistant
• 2 years of collegetechnician
• 4 years of collegetechnologist
• Example medical, dental, veterinarian, radiology
  or lab asset, technician or technologist

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• Someone who takes risks to start a business,
  creates jobs and is their own boss is known as
  this

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• What is an entrepreneur?

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• Rehabilitation centers for post operative
  patients are probably staffed by these specialists

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• What are physical therapists and perhaps,
  physiatrists (MD PTs)?

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• A childrens dentist

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• Pedodontist

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• He wrote the oath all physicians recite upon
  graduation

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• Hippocrates the father of western medicine

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• She is the heiress to a hotel fortune and has a
  Chihuahua

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• Who is Paris Hilton?

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• One of her biggest hits is titled Love Story

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• Who is Taylor Swift?

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• The president and founder of the Imperial Sugar
  Company

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• Who was I.H. Kempner of Sugar Land?

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• The Federal bureau charged with making workplaces
  safe

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• OSHA (Occupational Safety Hazards Administration)

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• If you like being a Cougar, you might want to
  continue your education at this university but
  youll be a Husky at this school

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• What is the University of Houston and HBU

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• Her big hit three years ago was irreplaceable

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• Who is Rhianna?

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• The only two nursing schools in or near Ft. Bend
  County

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• What are HBU and Wharton Schools of Nursing (now
  in Sugar land on I-59 and University while HBUs
  nursing school is on I-59 and Beechnut at the
  university)

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• The two main courses one must have in order to
  apply to nursing schools everywhere

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• What are anatomy/physiology (8 credit hours AKA
  two semesters) and microbiology (4 credit hours
  or one semester)?

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• He was Bourne to make these films

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• Who is Matt Damon?

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• The degree you would earn after nursing school if
  you finished college as well

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• What is the BSN (Bachelors of Science in Nursing)?

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• Two people who have lived in Never Never Land

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• Who are Peter Pan and Michael Jackson?

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• You have diabetes you seek help from this kind
  of specialist

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• What is an endocrinologist?

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• The country where the marshmallow was invented

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• Egypt

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• Where the watermelon was first produced

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• China

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• If you had a kidney infection you might seek this
  type of specialist

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• What is a nephrologist or urologist?

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• An ear, nose and throat specialist is technically
  named this

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• What is an otolaryngologist? (thats why we call
  them ENTs

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• If you had breast cancer, you might seek therapy
  from this type of specialist

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• What is an oncologist? (they administer
  chemotherapy and radiation therapy to kill the
  cancer)

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• If you need a biopsy to determine if you have a
  cancer, to whom will the sample be sent for
  determination?

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• The pathologist

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• If you needed lung surgery, youd seek this type
  of surgeon

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• What is a thoracic surgeon AKA pulmonary surgeon?

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• You need to consult a physician about birth
  control and get a breast exam what specialist
  handles women only?

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• OB/GYN known as obstetrician/gynecologist

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• The only medical man known in rap music

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• Who is Dr. Dre?

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• You get an MBA degree but want to work in the
  medical field this career is for you

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• What is Hospital/healthcare Administration (VPs
  and CEOs of hospitals and medical companies)?

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• You like to work with your hands and make false
  teeth. This career is for you

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• What is prosthodontics? Either as a DDS in an
  office or as a dental technician in a lab

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• This technical specialist keeps you alive when
  you are having heart surgery and your heart has
  to be stopped to be corrected by the surgeons.
  This tech. keeps you alive

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• What is a perfusionist?

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• This technician specializes in drawing blood from
  you for blood tests

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• What is a phlebotomist? (phlebosvein and
  otomyto put a hole in)

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• If you have gingivitis, you need to seek this
  specialist

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• What is a periodontist?

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• Nicolles husband is also known as a famous
  country and western singer of the year even
  though hes an Aussie from down under

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• Who is Keith Urban?

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• She was a Tomb Raider after bearing Brads kids

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• Who is Angline Jolie?

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• A D.C. indicates this doctor has this skill

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• What is a chiropractor, they do spinal adjusting,
  disease prevention, pain care?

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• You need contact lenses you would seek this
  specialist

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• What is an optometrist? (O.D.)

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• You need an anti-depressant like Prozac for
  depression. Who you going to call?

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• What is a psychiatrist?

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• You need to get off of a drug addiction. What
  type of facility would you seek?

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• Rehabilitation centers

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This type of nurse is not quite an RN but has one
year of nursing training and is still licensed by
the state
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• What is an LVN? (also known as an LPN, licensed
  practical or licensed vocation nurses do more
  basic nursing duties like patient hygiene, but
  can earn money to continue their nursing
  education and get their RN as they work often
  paid for by the hospital they work at part time
  in)

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• Medical research is generally done by doctors not
  with MDs but this degree

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• What is a Ph.D? or a Masters if you have 30
  credit hours only post-grad. PhD has 60 credit
  hours post-grad

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• Youll need this number of credits more to get a
  B.S. if you have an A.S.already

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• What is 60?

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• You like to work like a doctor, earn a good
  living in a doctors office but are only willing
  to do six years of study. What career are you
  seeking?

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• What is a Physicians Assistant? (P.A.) also a
  nurse practitioner is the same license

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• A hemorrhoid sufferer seeks this professionals
  care

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• What is a proctologist?

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• You need Lasik surgery. Who are you going to
  call?

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• An ophthalmologist

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• You like sirens, adrenaline rushes and saving
  lives but only want a technical training program.
  What would be suitable for you?

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• EMT 1, EMT 2 or EMT 3(paramedic) program levels
  of training. 1 yr., 2 yrs. or three yrs. for
  paramedic

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• You like treating folks with acid reflux whats
  your specialty?

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• What is a gastroenterologist?

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• Their goal is to rehabilitate you so that you may
  live independently

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• What is an OT? Occupational therapist

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• You dont like injections, blood and drugs for
  treatment but want to relieve a patients pain
  and use preventative medicine and give safe
  relief of aches. What do you want to study?

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• What is a chiropractor?

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• You specialize in the treatment of the elderly

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• What is a geriatrician or gerontologist?

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• You want a technical career which helps people
  with certain pulmonary diseases get rehabilitated
  especially after surgery and if they are smokers

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• What is a respiratory therapist? (2 yr. training
  program)

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• What does JFK, Bush, Logan, La Guardia and OHare
  all have in common

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• They are all the names of U.S. airports?

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• Youre in a city where the Mississippi meets the
  Gulf of Mexico. Where are you?

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• New Orleans

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• They used to be called apothecaries

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• What is a pharmacy?

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• You like physics and high tech,expensive devices
  for imaging the interior of patients bodies
  what field should you pursue?

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• Radiology and imaging specialist

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• An M.D. doctor who specializes in physical
  therapy but is not a physical therapist

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• What is a physiatrist?

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• You do autopsies and biopsies

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• What is a pathologist? (pathosdisease)

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• Orville and Wilbur became famous at this South
  Carolina beach for inventing this device

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• The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk invented the
  first working airplane

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• The female lead singer of the Black Eyed Peas

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• Who is Fergie?

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• The are known as ENTs for short

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• Otolaryngologists AKA ear, nose and throat
  specialists i.e. ENTs

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• The difference between a D.O. and an O.D.

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• A D.O. is a doctor of Osteopathy, essentially the
  same as an M.D.and is a general medical doctor,
  while an O.D. is an optometric doctor, to measure
  your eyes to make glasses and contact lenses

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• Its where you find the worm on the line when
  youre fishing

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• THE END

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• Your examination will be made up of 1/3 from the
  task sheet, 1/3 from class slides and jeopardy
  slides and 1/3 from your class notes. Remember
  to write the number of jeopardy points you got
  (NOT THE CLASS RING NUMBER) on your scantron
  tomorrow above your name to add these points to
  your total exam grade