Influential People
Known as the father of American psychiatry, and believed that mental illness was caused by irritation of the blood vessels in the brain (Shi & Singh, 2019).
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush?
Symbolizing items placed outside of barbershops as a reminder that barbers also served as surgeons (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What are red-and-white striped poles?
The ways in which healthcare delivery in the U.S. has become the domain of large organizations (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is corporatization?
Graduate medical education in a specialty that takes the form of paid-on-the-job training (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is residency?
An area of dentistry that specializes in making artificial teeth or dentures (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is prosthodontics?
Implemented the policy of handwashing by discovering the connection between puerperal fever and bad hand hygiene (Shi & Singh, 2019).
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
During this time, this place had a popular image of death and was characterized by shameful sanitary conditions and poor ventilation (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is a hospital?
The use of telecommunications which makes it possible for physicians to have interactive video consultations (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is telemedicine?
Practiced by DOs and emphasizes the musculoskeletal system (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is osteopathic medicine?
A pharmacist that specializes in drug therapy and works closely with physicians (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is a pharmacotherapist?
Generally credited with the pioneering germ theory of disease and microbiology by demonstrating sterilization techniques (Shi & Singh, 2019).
Who is Louis Pasteur?
An institution that served as an infirmary, old-age facility, orphanage, and homeless shelter (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is an almshouse?
Healthcare information and services that are offered via the Internet (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is E-Health?
Views medical treatment as an active intervention that produces a reaction that is aimed towards neutralizing the effects of a disease (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is allopathic medicine?
Provide vision care, such as examination, diagnosis, and correction of vision problems (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What are optometrists?
Known as the father of antiseptic surgery, and popularized using chemical inhibition of infection during surgery (Shi & Singh, 2019).
Who is Joseph Lister?
Buildings built by the state government for patients with untreatable and chronic mental illness (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is an asylum?
Includes various forms of cross-border economic activities that are driven by the global exchange of information, and it has increased the interdependence of different world economies (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is globalization?
Physicians that are trained in family medicine, general practice, general internal medicine, and general pediatric care (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What are generalists?
Has expertise in providing patients with mental healthcare (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is a psychologist?
Discovered the antibacterial properties of penicillin (Shi & Singh, 2019).
Who is Alexander Fleming?
A specific chair that was used to return a patient to a level of rational thinking by inducing vertigo, nausea, and perspiration (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is a tranquilizer chair?
Enables physicians in the U.S. to transmit radiological images overseas; then they can be interpreted and reported back in a timely manner (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is teleradiology?
Physicians that are not in primary care specialties and deal with particular diseases or organ systems (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What are specialists?
Treats patients with diseases or deformities of the feet by performing surgical operations, prescribing medications, prescribing corrective devices, and administering physiotherapy (Shi & Singh, 2019).
What is a podiatrist?