History of Health Care
Pioneered medical ethics and has an oath named after him.
Who is Hippocrates?
This is now used as a way to remotely assess and diagnose patients.
What is telemedicine?
Byron Wellness Community is classified as this type of facility.
What is a nursing home or extended care facility?
The act of filing a claim for exaggerated or nonexistent services.
What is fraud?
A degree that is usually awarded after four years of study.
What is a bachelor's degree?
This ancient drug is derived from Foxglove, and continues to be used today.
What is Digitalis?
Due to average life expectancy increasing, there is a greater need to understand this type of medicine.
What is geriatric medicine?
A service (either at the patient's home or in a dedicated facility) which is provided when the patient is moribund.
What is hospice?
A type of insurance program available to disabled and low-income Americans.
What is Medicaid?
This is why hoop and dangling earrings are discouraged or even prohibited in health care environments.
What is a risk of patients grabbing or pulling on them?
Invented the microscope and was the first to discover microscopic life.
Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
A type of unlicensed care giver who provides personal care.
What is a CNA/nursing assistant?
A genre of care where the patient does not require overnight admission within a facility.
What is ambulatory or outpatient care?
An amount of money that an insurance company requires be paid at the time of service.
What is a co-payment?
This is where you should be speaking to a patient who is confined to a bed.
These two men discovered the molecular structure of DNA, which explained how information is stored within.
Who are Francis Crick and James Watson?
A type of diagnostic technique which does not penetrate the skin.
What is noninvasive?
This is like an outpatient or "abbreviated" version of a nursing home.
What is senior day care?
Groups of medical conditions which determine the reasonable costs for the conditions, as well as the standard treatment to be used.
What are diagnostic-related groupings?
A retail skill necessary for health care.
What is customer service?
This is when Christian Barnard performed the first successful heart transplant.
When is 1968?
Due to vaccination efforts, this viral disease has been declared eradicated.
What is smallpox?
This could be considered the opposite of ambulatory care.
What is convalescent care?
The full name for what is commonly known as "ObamaCare."
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
The personal use of this is discouraged due to potential adverse reactions from patients.
What is scented deodorant/perfume?