Surgical Jeopardy! Famous - Online version

 

Surgical Jeopardy! Famous

 

The answer for the first question:

What is your diagnosis?
A. Perforated peptic ulcer
B. Splenic rupture
C. Appendicitis
D. Acute pancreatitis

The correct answer is acute appendicitis!

Discussion

After the patient completed his show, he returned to the Statler Hotel, where Daniel E. Cohn, a young physician covering for the usual senior hotel doctor, diagnosed acute appendicitis. On October 25, 1926, Dr. Charles S. Kennedy, Chief of Surgery at Grace Hospital in Detroit, operated  the patient, discovering acute gangrenous appendicitis with peritonitis. A few days later Dr. Kennedy reoperated because of suspected ileus or obstruction. He died on Sunday, October 31, with the cause of death listed as "diffuse streptococcal peritonitis."

Who was our mystery patient?

1. Rudolf Valentino
2. Charlie Chaplin
3. Ehrich Weiss
4. Jerry Garcia

Send your answer for the congress mail: congresso@internoscirurgia.org.

  
And don't forget to choose your answer until 6th May in the online voting that appears in the blog's begining.