Physician Types
The practice of medicine that emphasizes the musculoskeletal system and emphasizes preventative medicine, taking a more holistic approach.
What is a DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine)?
Covers all elderly persons or disabled persons.
What is Medicare?
A state house built for patients with intractable, chronic medical conditions.
What is an asylum?
The preoccupation that led to too many specialists, and not enough generalists.
Whats is technology and science?
This provider specializes in treating the teeth and gums.
What is a dentist
The practice of medicine that views medical treatment as an active intervention to produce a counteracting reaction in attempts to neutralize the effects of disease.
What is an MD (A doctor of Medicine)?
What Insurance is federally uniform?
What is Medicare?
Forerunner of today's hospitals and nursing homes in the US.
Whats is the almshouse or poorhouse?
The medicalSchool that completely revolutionized the system of medical education.
What is Harvard?
Provider trained in measuring and dispensing drugs.
What is a pharmacist?
Physicians trained in Family medicine/general medicine.
What is a generalist?
The first broad-coverage health insurance in the US?
What is workers' compensation?
An institution in the past designed to house people with contagious disease.
What is a pesthouse?
Association that played a critical role in galvanizing the medical profession.
What is the AMA (American Medical Association)?
The provider that specializes in the treatment of feet.
What is a podiatrist?
Physicians trained around the site of care (hospital)
What is a hospitalist?
Insurance designed for active military and retired military and their families only.
What is Tricare?
Clinics established to provide free care to those who could not afford to pay.
Whats are dispensaries.
Report on medical schools that came out in 1910.
What is the Flexner Report?
A provider that treats the eyes.
What is an ophthalmologist?
Physicians trained in non-primary care specialties or that deal with certain organ systems.
What are specialists?
The insurance plan started in California in 1939.
What is the first Blue Shield plan?
General hospital expansion began here long before the 1800's.
What is France and Great Britain?
Concept of health born in the 1960s to help the mentally ill.
What is community mental health?
This provider group makes up the largest group of healthcare professionals.
What are nurses?