History of Healthcare
Who said, "Let food be they medicine."
Hippocrates
Which pandemic struck in 1918?
Flu pandemic
Health Insurance: What do you call the payment made every month for health insurance?
What area of study deals with the structure of the body?
anatomy
How did Henrietta die?
What animal did doctors use in the past to let blood out of patients?
leeches
What is a more technical name for the Black Death pandemic?
The bubonic plague
deductible
What area of study deals with how the body works?
physiology
What is the nickname for the cells taken from Henrietta's body?
HeLa Cells
What did people in the past believe caused disease?
bad humours
What causes covid-19, a bacteria or virus?
virus
Name a country where people don't have to pay for their healthcare.
The United Kingdom
True or False: Superior and Posterior are opposites
False
Name a disease that HeLa cells have been used to help cure.
Answers vary
Have doctors always had anesthetics?
No
What makes a disease a pandemic?
It spread over a wide area, usually to multiple countries.
True or False: People can go bankrupt because of medical costs.
True
How many organ systems does the body have?
11
What is unique about HeLa cells?
They appear to be immortal.
Which vaccine was developed most quickly?
the covid vaccine
Which disease was the first vaccine made for?
smallpox
Name a medical-field job that is currently in high demand.
Nursing
What position do we assume the body is in when we are talking about the body in a medical context?
the anatomical position
Did Henrietta know that her cells were being used for scientific studies?
No