Medical Services
Pre-Industrial America
Pre-Industrial America
Medical education during the mid-1800's was lacking in scientific basis and apprenticeship-based. (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What was medical training like?
Marked by the growth and development of a medical profession that benefited from urbanization, new scientific discoveries, and reforms in medical education (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is the post-industrial era?
The first broad-coverage health insurance in the United States (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is worker's compensation during the early 1900's?
Play a central role in health care services by evaluating a patient's health condition, diagnosing abnormalities, and prescribing treatment (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What are physicians?
Major providers of dental care who diagnose and treat problems related to the teeth, gums, and tissues of the mouth (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is a dentist?
The forerunner of today's inpatient psychiatric facilities (Shi, Singh, 2023).
What is an asylum?
A dentist who first employed as an anesthetic around 1846 for tooth extraction (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
Who is Horace Wells?
New York and California were included in the states that attempted to enact legislation compelling employers to provide health insurance (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What are state legislatures?
Emphasizes the musculoskeletal system and stress preventative medicine, focusing on aspects of patients' lives such as diet and the environment as factors that might influence natural resistance (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is Osteopathic Medicine?
Dispense medicines prescribed by physicians, dentist, and podiatrist and to provide consultation on the proper selection and use of medicines (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What are Pharmacists?
Provided basic medical care and dispensed drugs to ambulatory patients that couldn't afford to pay (Shi, Singh, 2023).
What are dispensaries?
An organization that played a critical role in galvanizing the medical profession and in protecting the interests of physicians (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is the American Medical Association (AMA)?
The blueprint for modern health insurance which was conceived when Justin F. Kimball began a hospital insurance plan at Baylor University Hospital (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
Medical treatment viewed as an active intervention to produce a counteracting reaction in an attempt to neutralize the effects of disease (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is allopathic medicine?
The highest level of doctoral-level health professionals in the United States in 2019 (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is an optometrists?
Had a popular image as houses of death and institutions of welfare (Shi, Singh, 2023).
What are hospitals in the early 1800's?
In 1893 a university taking a lead in reforming medical education by opening its medical school in Baltimore, Maryland (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is Johns Hopkins University?
The California Medical Association started a plan designed to pay physicians fees by endorsing hospital insurance and by actively developing the first plans that covered physicians' services, the medical profession protected its own financial interests (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is the first Blue Shield plan?
Specialty that is organized around the site of care, that is the hospital, instead of a specific organ disease or age (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is a hospitalist?
Constitute the largest group of health care professional developed after War War 1 (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is a nurse?
A place of confinement for the destitute and disruptive elements of society (Shi, Singh, 2023).
What is an almshouse?
A center around which other medical services including advanced technology used in medical diagnosis, treatment, and various types of training of health care personnel were organized (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
A term synonymous with any large-scale government-sponsored expansion of health insurance (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is socialized medicine?
Second highest specialty practices physicians were involved in the highest proportion of ambulatory care visits in the Unite States (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What is internal medicine?
Clinical professionals who practice in many areas in which physicians practice but who do not possess an MD or a DP degree (Shi, Singh, 2023.)
What are nonphysician practitioners?