Medical Services
The transformation of health care delivery in the US into the domain of large organizations.
What is Corporatization
The program for providing health to the poor through federal matching funds provided to the states based on each states financial need.
What is Medicaid?
Physicians in non primary care specialties, dealing with particular diseases or organ system.
What is a specialist?
In 1939, The California Medical Association started this.
What is the Blue Shield plan?
This was received through individual apprenticeship with a practicing physician rather than through university education.
What is medical training?
Various forms of cross border economic activities.
What is Globalization?
The publicly financed health insurance program for the elderly and certain disabled persons.
What is Medicare?
They manage the care of hospitalized patients.
What is a hospitalist?
This place became the center for advanced technology used in medical diagnosis and treatment, and for the training of many types of healthcare personal.
What is a hospital?
Often viewed as aberrant behavior.
What is mental illness?
Technology advances in the distant transmission of image data.
What is telemedicine?
What is voluntary health insurance?
Must complete a state approved program in pratical nursing, and pass a national written exam, and have at least 1 year class and clinical studies.
What is an LPN?
This became an important part of collective bargaining between unions and employers.
What is health insurance?
A place where the destitute and disruptive elements of society were confined.
What is an almshouse?
Basic medical care provided and dispensed drugs to ambulatory patients.
What is a dispensary?
Any large scale government sponsored expansion of health insurance.
What is socialized medicine?
A nurse who have education and clinical experiences beyond that required of an RN.
What is an APN?
Their role is to dispense medication and provide consultations on use of medications.
What is a pharmacist?
Outside barber shops today are reminders that barbers also functioned as surgeons at one time, using the same blade to cut hair, shave beards, and perform bloodletting.
What is the red and white striped poles?
A place to isolate people who contracted a contagious disease.
What is a pesthouse?
The system to make cash payments to workers for lost wages because of job related injuries and disease.
What is worker's compensation?
Provide vision care, such as examination, diagnosis, and correction of vision problems.
What is an Optometrists?
Their main role is to diagnose and treat problems related to teeth, gums and tissues around the mouth.
What is a dentist?
Known as the father of American psychiatry.
Who is Benjamin Rush?