Medical Services in Preindustrial and Postindustrial America
Regarded as more of a trade than as a profession because medical education was not as grounded in science.
What is medical practice?
The first broad-coverage health insurance in the United States. Designed to make cash payments to workers for wages lost because of job-related injuries and disease.
What is worker's compensation?
Ways that health care delivery in the United States has become the domain of large organizations.
What is corporatization?
Physicians trained in family medicine/general practice, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics.
What are generalists?
Diagnose and treat problems related to teeth, gums, and mouth tissues.
What are dentists?
The forerunner of today's Hospitals and nursing homes. It is a place of confinement for the destitute and disruptive elements of society.
What are almshouses?
Nonprofit organization started by Justin F. Kimbell.
What is the Blue Cross?
Organization that obtains health care services at a discounted price and reduces the rising cost of health care.
What are managed care organizations?
Involved in inpatient medicine, and their roles parallel to those of primary care physicians in nonhospital settings.
What are hospitalists?
Dispense medicine prescribed by physicians, dentists, and podiatrists.
What are pharmacists?
The forerunner of today's inpatient psychiatric facilities. Built by the government for patients with untreatable, chronic mental illness.
What are asylums?
Program designed to pay physicians' fees by endorsing hospital insurance. Opposed to government-run national health insurance.
What is Blue Shield?
Health care information and services offered through the internet by professionals and nonprofessionals.
What is E-health?
Physicians that deal with problems that occur less frequently or require complex diagnostic or therapeutic approaches.
What are specialists?
Main caregivers for sick and injured patients and address their physical, mental and emotional need.
What are nurses?
Plays a critical role in galvanizing the medical profession and protecting the interests of physicians.
What is the American Medical Association
Large-scale government- sponsored expansion of health insurance.
What is socialized medicine?
Cross border economic activities that are driven by the global exchange of information, production of goods and services, and increased interdependence.
What is globalization?
A patient with multiple health issues?
What is comorbidity?
Clinical professionals who practice in many areas in which physicians practice but who do not possess an MD or a DO degree.
What are nonphysician practitioners?
Published by Abraham Flexner under the auspices of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Based on an inspection of medical schools.
What is the Flexner Report?
Program that covers eligible poor and financed through federal matching funds to the states in accordance with each state's per capita income.
What is Medicaid?
Health care at a distance, such as real-time transmission of video examinations and tlesurgery.
What is telemedicine?
Imbalance between primary and specialty care in the United States.
What is specialty maldistribution?
Focus on public health issues that effect communities. They includes issues related to health care, infectious diseases, and environmental issues.
What are public health professionals?