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Trephination or trephining involves this:

drilling a hole in someone's head.

100

Prior to the invention of modern medicine, even if a surgery was successful, many patients died from this. 

Infection

100

When someone makes a decision about their medical health, based on full knowledge of the risks and benefits this is known as.

Informed consent

100

True or false: Some transplants can be donated from a living person.

True

100

language proficiency, typing speed, degrees, math skills, and licenses are these types of skills. 

HARD skills

100

Your head is _________ to your foot

Superior

100

The human body has this many systems.

11

100

The heart is in this system

Cardiovascular or circulatory

100

The structure of something.

Anatomy

200
In the 1940s, doctors may have done this surgery to treat mental health disorders. 

Lobotomy

200

The smallpox vaccine was created using what virus?

cowpox

200

Medical ethics committees are made up of 

different levels of professionals
200

DNR stands for

DO NOT RESUSCITATE

200

Friendliness, flexibility, people skills, organization are examples of these types of skills.

SOFT skills.

200

Your knee is ________ to your toes

Proximal
200

This means around

Peri

200

The lungs are in this system.

Respiratory

200

Further from the point of attachment. 

Distal

300

This is an oath that doctors take when they graduate, whereby they swear to do no harm to patients. 

Hippocratic Oath

300

Prior to being able to suture or stitch up wounds, physicians would use this:

boiling hot liquids like oil

300

A person who is named to make medical decisions, if the patient is unable to, is called

A health care proxy

300

Providing free mammogram screening to all women would be an example of this:

Justice

300

You need to go to this type of school to get a Masters or Doctorate degree

University

300

Your ears are  ___________ to your nose

Lateral

300

This is the process that keeps the environment stable.

Homeostasis

300

The brain is in this cavity

Cranial

300

Towards the midline or center of the body

Medial

400

Prior to anesthesia, surgeons were rated on their

Speed

400

Aristotle was famous for this:

Using the evidenced based method approach

400

This is a document that states exactly what a patient wants, should he/she be unable to make his/her own decision. 

Advanced directives

400

Patients have the right to having their medical records kept private. What law supports this?

HIPAA

400

This type of school is for an associate degree but not higher.

Community college

400

This plane cuts the body into a front and back section

Frontal

400

This means to change positions

movement

400

Skin, hair and nails

Integumentary system

400

Closer to the surface of the body.

Superficial

500

Dr. Lister insisted on having a few things.  What did these things involve?

cleanliness; being clean. (ex, clean aprons, clean silk for suturing).

500

The four humours include these:

Blood, Phlegm, Black bile, Yellow bile

500

The four tenants of medical ethics are

Autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, justice

500

Which philosophy states that the consequences or results of an action determine if the action is good or bad?

Consequentialism

500

JD, PhD, PsyD, DNP, MD are examples of what?

Doctorate degrees

500

This plane cuts the body into left and right sections

Sagittal

500

This means before or behind

Retro

500

The lungs are in this cavity

Thoracic

500

Further inside a structure

Deep

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