One of my passions, beginning as a neophytic medical student, has been to catalog and learn about medically related eponyms. To this day, when I come across an eponym that is unfamiliar, I immediately seek out its derivation and symptom complex. As I have advanced further in my academic surgical career, it has given me an opportunity to impart this wisdom to my younger colleagues.
It was in this vein that I recently came across an unrecognized eponym, Takotsubo