"Forces of Change!"
This nickname for the Affordable Care Act was attributed to this historic and beloved President of the United States...
What is Obamacare?
This early 20th century institution served as a precursor to free clinics of today wherein basic medical care and prescriptions was provided to those in need... today's institutions of the same name prescribe a different kind of medication...
What are Dispensaries?
As compared to 11% of the U.S population in 1840, *THIS* startling, but promising trend welcomed rural Americans to city living, with an increase to 40% of the U.S population by 1900.
What is "Urbanization"?
This view of medicine understands medical treatment as an active intrvention to produce a counteracting reaction in an attempt to nullify the damage a disease can accomplish...
What is "allopathic medicine"?
The Northeastern region of the United States is famous for clam chowder, founding the U.S, and a surprisingly plentiful distribution of THIS kind of healthcare worker...
What are physicians?
In 2003, Addition of prescription drug benefits to Medicare due to the growing influence of this class of citizens
What is "The Elderly"?
The "almshouse", a prototype to many modern care facilities, also given *THIS* depressive nickname, referenced those inside with much disdain due to their status of those in need...
The concerted efforts of the AMA allowed physicians to seek salaried employment through which bodies, establishing medical care as a true profession aside from capitalistic debauchery?
What are "hospitals?"
For every 10,000 individuals, the prominence of these two classifications of active physicians have almost doubled from 1950-2016...
What are MDs, DOs?
This priceless resource to U.S Healthcare comes in the form of bodies that are just as capable, cheaper to emply and train, but limited in versatiliy
Who are "community health workers"?
As compared to Canada and Great Britain, The United States recieves a significant amount of funding from which entity that, in turn, relinquishes significant control of the U.S Healthcare System?
What is the U.S Government?
In the late 18th and early 19th centruy, surtgery was limited. However, those that were brave and potentially desperate could visit this aesthetic groomer for bloodletting, minor surgeries, and perhaps some personal grooming...
What is a barber?
The AMA is likely responsible for the "prescription pad" due to their concerted efforts towards making certain pharmaceuticals innacessible through public policy and *THIS* rigorous and costly system of pharma-organizational practice...
What is "Drug Classification"?
Physicians trained in family medicine, internal medicine, or general pediatrics are also called primary care physicians, as well as this simple, yet descriptive alias...
What are "generalists"?
This unique group of citizens, born and bred off of postwar glee and familiarity, pose a specific and devastating effect on the U.S Healthcare System due to one commonality: age...
Who are "The Baby Boomers"?
This four-year, cataclysmic event triggered great strides for medicine in the U.S...
What is "The Civil War"?
This wooden contraption, "playtested" in early asylums and invented by Dr. Benjamin Rush, intended to pacify the likely unwilling participant into bliss by strapping their head into a dark box...
What is the "Tranquilizer Chair"?
Name one of the two Universities specifically designed to establish black physicians in the medical field after after the Civil War?
What is "Meharry Medical College"?
What is "Howard School of Medicine"?
This key difference between primary care students and students in medical subspecialties explains their difference in training curriculum with primary care doctors observing and participating in ambulatory care moreso that astudent in a focused careerfield...
What is "Scope"?
This subspecialty is heavily understaffed, requiring nearly 6x the current workforce by 2030 to keep upwith rising demands for medical care towards the elderly.
What is "Geriatrics" or "Geriatricians"?
Horace Wells discovered "Laughing Gas", or nitrous oxide, the first anesthetic, in 1846. Later anesthetics ether and chloroform were popularized in pharmacology by John Snow and were used instead of what delicious substance as a way to subdue patients before surgery...
What is "Alcohol?"
These sinister facilities were erected to house wandering indiviudals suffering from untreatable, chronic mental illness in an effort to keep them from being imprisoned
What are lunatic asylums?
This iconic medical education program still stands today in Baltimore, Maryland, paramount in the implementation of cutting edge technology in medical settings worldwide, thanks in part to the cells of Mrs. Henrietta Lacks...
What is "John's Hopkins University?"
Rather than a patient's age, disease, or organ, this unique specialist is nicknamed after the location in which they practice and has an emphasized role in Canadian and British Healthcare...
Wage distributions and inequity between these two classifications of physicians contribute to imbalance in the workforce, with potentially dangerous consequences for the citizens of the U.S...
What are "Primary Care Physicians" and "Specialists"?