Medical Terminology
This part of a medical term usually tells you the body part involved
What is the root word?
This law protects medical information
What is HIPAA?
This healthcare professional dispenses medications
What is a pharmacist?
He is known as the father of modern medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
Forgetting to raise bed rails causing injury is an example of this
What is negligence?
This suffix means inflammation
What is ethics?
The founder of modern nursing
Who is Florence Nightingale?
He discovered penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
Operating on the wrong body part is classified as this
What is malpractice?
The prefix brady- means this
What is slow?
Sharing patient information without permission is an example of this
What is an ethical violation?
A medical professional who draws blood
what is a phlebotomist?
He is associated with germ theory and disease transmission.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Working outside your scope of practice makes you this
What is liable?
This term means surgical removal of the appendix
What is appendectomy?
This type of law involves one person suing another for injury or harm
What is civil law?
A medical doctor trained to diagnose and treat patients
What is a physician?
He is best known for establishing medical ethics
Who is Hippocrates?
Filming a patient without consent violates this.
What is invasion of privacy?
This medical term means inflammation of the stomach lining
What is gastritis?
Posting false written information about someone that harms their reputation is called this
What is libel?
A person with a doctoral degree who may or may not treat patients
What is a doctor?
This famous case involved frontal lobe affecting personality
Who is Phineas Gage?
Performing a procedure you were never trained to do violates this.
What is scope of practice?