Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 240

LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 240. Readers can subscribe to FFFF RSS or subscribe to the FFFF weekly EMAIL Question 1 Colonial India, under British rule may seem a strange place for medical ethics but during this time the ‘Cobra effect’ was observed. What is the Cobra effect? Hmm… No ear holes, no eyelids, and broad ventral scales… [Photo by Gregor Younger] Reveal Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1893553794'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1893553794')) When an attempted solution to a problem makes the problem worse (at first do no harm – Primum non nocere). The British government were concerned about the number of venomous cobra snakes in Delhi and therefore offered a bounty on dead cobras. Those member of the population who were more enterprising started breeding cobras to gain the rewards offered. Once the government because aware of this ‘loop hole’ they stopped the program. As a result the wild cobra population increased and made the situation worse. [Freakonomics podcast] [Der Kobra-Effekt. Horst Siebert (2001)] Question 2 What is tradus et parvus? Reveal Answer expand(document....
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