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Trivia

APCs Insider, March 13, 2015

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March 15, the Ides of March, is known as the date Julius Caesar was assassinated. What did the Ides signify for Romans each month?
 
a. A full moon
b. A religious holiday
c. The day for tax collections
d. The middle of the month
 
Think you know the answer? E-mail Editor Steven Andrews. If you are one of five randomly selected readers to answer correctly the day you receive your issue, you’ll receive a free three-month trial subscription to the HCPro newsletter of your choice.      
    
Last week’s question
 
A panophobe is afraid of what?
 
a. Cookware
b. Everything
c. Pastures
d. Shepherds
 
The answer is B. Panophobia is a term for the fear of everything, but it's not used clinically. Criteria for its diagnosis do not exist in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition.



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