Medical Procedures
This surgical procedure involves removing a woman’s uterus.
What is a hysterectom?
This term describes a person’s emotional and psychological well-being.
What is mental health?
This term refers to a patient’s right to keep their medical information private.
What is patient confidentiality?
This term describes someone with abnormally high blood pressure.
What is hypertensive?
This term refers to a person who donates an organ or tissue to another person.
What is a donor?
This process involves transferring an organ or tissue from one person to another.
What is a transplant?
This mental health condition involves extreme mood swings between mania and depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
This term describes when a minor is legally allowed to make their own medical decisions.
What is medically emancipated?
This term describes someone with abnormally low blood pressure.
What is hypotensive?
This term describes how well a donor’s organ matches a recipient’s body.
What is compatibility?
this branch of medicine deals with pregnancy and childbirth.
What is obstetrics?
This type of therapy involves talking to a professional to improve mental health.
What is psychiatric therapy?
This term refers to a disagreement or argument between people or groups.
What is a dispute?
This process occurs when the body’s immune system attacks a transplanted organ.
What is the rejection process?
This term refers to a doctor who performs surgeries.
What is a surgeon?
this therapy involves gradually exposing a patient to something they fear to help them overcome it.
What is exposure therapy?
This term describes a specific period of time when symptoms of a mental illness occur.
What is an episode?
This term describes the moral principles that guide medical practice.
What are ethics?
This term refers to the use of medication to make a patient calm or unconscious.
What is sedation?
This term refers to the process of identifying a disease or condition based on symptoms and tests.
What is a diagnosis?
This term describes when a patient leaves the hospital despite their doctor’s advice.
What is against medical advice?
This term refers to a patient following their doctor’s instructions, such as taking medication.
What is compliance?
This term refers to a doctor’s failure to provide proper treatment, resulting in harm to the patient.
What is malpractice?
This term describes something that cannot be changed back to how it was before.
What is irreversible?
This term refers to the practice of carrying a hidden weapon, such as a gun, in public.
What is concealed carry?