"The Name Game" – Medical Eponyms!
The use of Medical Eponyms is a long-standing tradition in medicine. It’s a way of honoring a physician who played a prominent role in identifying and describing a disease.
Recently there has been a shift away from using people’s names (Eponyms) to using the more descriptive pathologic names. Here are a few that you might encounter on your board exams...
For exams, make sure to know both the medical eponym and the pathologic name so they can't trip you up with the "Name game"!
Photo: Neurologist Dr. Samuel Wilson who described Wilson’s disease! [Photo Credit: Carl Vandyk, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]
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