Healthcare
Putting yourself in another person's shoes; think about what is best for the patient
What is empathy?
Prefix that means abnormally fast
What is tachy?
Back side of the body
What is posterior?
Name of person patient interacts with prior to the examination
What is medical assistant?
Structure that is commonly called the windpipe
What is trachea?
Another term for critical thinking
What is problem-solving?
Combining form gastr/o means
What is stomach?
Glaucoma causes severe impairment of:
What is vision / visual?
Another word for sudden onset
What is acute?
Painful inflammation of the sac located around a joint containing lubricating fluids
What is bursitis?
AMT stands for (organization offers the Registered Medical Assistant)
What is American Medical Technologists?
Suffix meaning "breath" or "breathing"
What is -pnea?
Material within the chromosome that encodes the genes that are located at specific sites on the chromosome
What is DNA?
Patient's main health concern is also known as
What is chief complaint?
Complete or incomplete tear in the supporting ligaments of a joint
What is a sprain?
Statute of limitations is _ years.
What is two?
What is cerebral vascular accident? (stroke)
Method of screening for breast and ovarian cancer
What is BRCA analysis?
Name at least 5 types of supplies that are commonly used for patient examinations
Otoscope
Various specimen collection kits or containers
Lubricant
Tongue depressor
Gloves
Percussion hammer
Drapes
Fecal occult blood test
Tape measure
Tuning fork
Penlight
Any eight of the following:
Basin
Stethoscope
Ophthalmoscope
Metabolic bone disorder that is characterized by acceleration of the rate of bone resorption while the rate of bone formation slows down
What is osteoporosis?
Medical assistant owes the duty of _____, meaning they take appropriate steps to check the type and dosage of medication before administering to patient
What is reasonable care?
What is myocarditis?
Two divisions of the autonomic nervous system are:
What are sympathetic and parasympathetic?
Absence of pertinent information in a patient's health history could result in this
What is misdiagnosis?
Disease in which the walls of the ventricles of the heart are markedly thickened
What is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?