1. I was not the first person to make the Wong-Armisen connection. I looked at the bulletin board in the Resident Workroom and saw a giant picture of Dr. Wong next to a giant picture of Fred Armisen that someone else had tacked up. Hilarious!
2. In addition to hypoparathyroidism, there is such a thing as pseudohypoparathyroidism. It is a disease in which the patient has carpo-pedal spasm, tetany, muscle cramps and seizures. Lab values show low serum calcium and high phosphate, but the PTH level is actually high due to the hypocalcemia.
3. In addition to pseudohypoparathyroidism, there is such a thing as pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism. It is a disease in which the patient presents with the same problems as a patient with pseudohypoparathyroidism, but is biochemically normal. Also, holy moley, that word is 30 characters long.
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