Gotta Catch Em All!



I'm taking this opportunity to talk about one of my favorite obsessions: naming medicines.

I promise I am being so dead serious right now. I think half of the reason why I passed orgo with flying colors is because I knew how to name medications. But, I will admit, molecules like tenofovir are horrendous so thank god we have new naming conventions.

-Vir for antivirals, -pril for ACE inhibitors, and -priprazole for antipsychotics. An then you have antifungals like ibrexafungerp.

We are currently in a (minor) crisis where we are running out of names for medications, and so you end up with medications like ibrexafungerp. If you want to get controversial, there's the whole Versed/vecuronium issue that happened at Vanderbilt. It's a little funny because we have 1025 different Pokemon names and somehow none of them overlap. 

However, to make this more amusing than not, I have added a Kahoot which includes either medication names or Pokemon names and you have to guess which is which. I will be using brand names :) Please forgive me, pill or pokemon is a catchier title than medication or pokemon.

https://create.kahoot.it/details/5f15428c-e81a-435c-95fd-f03bfdfb8dff 

Comments

  1. Kristen GApril 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM

    I love Le Sserafim and pokemon! I feel like a new crispr technology should be named New Jeans

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