Attending: Does anyone know why we call this Legionnaire’s disease?
Residents: … No. Why?
Attending: In 1976, there was a meeting of the American Legion in a Phildadelphia hotel, and everyone contracted a mystery illness. The CDC got involved, they found a brand new gram negative bacteria in the hotel’s air filtering system, and called it “Legionnaire’s disease”.
Resident: Ah, very interesting.
Attending: How about Nystatin? Anyone know how Nystatin got its name?
Residents: Er, no. Why?
Attending: It was discovered in upstate New York! N-y! Nystatin. Boy, you’re all learning a lot today!
Residents: *murmurs of agreement*
Attending: Now that you know that, you should be able to figure out how Coxsackie virus was named! Anyone know how Coxsackie got it’s name?
Residents: ….
Foreign Resident: It was found in… cock.. sack?
Ten minutes of silence.
A pin drops.
Yes, I think we all learned a lot today.
Action Potential 
And Premarin is named for PREgnant MARe urINe, because that is where it used to be isolated from; and Lasix means the effect LAsts SIX hours… etc etc
And quite frankly the residents should have known Legionella because every Micro course brings that up.
Yeah, I was really surprised none of them did. Figured it might have just been MY medical school that emphasized the hell out of that bit of trivia, but maybe not..
mine does too. didn’t know the part about nystatin though.
I’ve always wondered where coxsackie came from! (Not that it has any relevance to anything that I will ever do in the future.)
“And the singer CeCe Peniston is named after…”
I knew those first two, but Coxackie had me stumped 😛
This made me laugh all the way out loud. First time visiting and loved this. Surprised he didn’t ask about lasix being named that because it lasts six hours.