Time Periods
Which time period put a high importance on diet and cleanliness?
what are the Ancient Greeks?
Who is known as the "Father of Medicine"?
Who is Hippocrates?
What type of facility provides care for patients who have serious conditions and may require surgical procedures?
What is a hospital?
what is a medical opinion about the likely outcome of a condition or disease
what is a prognosis
What is the most famous work that serves as a moral basis for may medical regulations?
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
Which time period believed illness and disease were caused by demons?
What is Prehistoric Times?
Which physician invented the first stethoscope?
Who is Rene Laennec?
In what type of care facility do patients receive assistance with activities of daily living?
What is Assisted Living?
what is a device used to allow health care professionals to listen to the internal sounds of a patient?
What is a stethoscope?
What procedure did ancient people perform to release evil spirits from the skull?
What is Trepanning
Which civilization was the first to recognize the need for washing and shaving a body before surgery?
What are the Ancient Egyptians?
Who was the inventor of penicillin?
Who is Alexander Flemming?
What facilities provide 24-hour care by medical staff for patients with medical and rehabilitation needs?
what are subacute facilities?
what is a treatment method that promotes healing through nutrition, relaxation, exercise, also known as alternative medicine?
what are complementary therapies?
What are the 4 liquids that Galen believed needed to stay in balance to remain healthy called?
what are humors?
Which time period were the first to organize medical care to soldiers?
Who are the Ancient Romans?
Who was the founder of modern nursing, known as the "Lady with the Lamp"?
Who is Florence Nightingale?
What type of facility focuses on reducing pain and stress during the last stage of terminal illness?
what is hospice?
what is a device used to measure the blood pressure of a patient?
what is a sphygmomanometer?
What is a holistic system of healing that focuses on stimulating the body’s ability to heal itself by giving very small doses of highly diluted substances?
what is homeopathy?
Which group believed in treating the body holistically?
Who was the first African-American surgeon to perform successful heart surgery?
Who is Daniel Williams Hale?
What is the term for agencies that provide care in a patient's home?
what is home care?
what is an infectious disease that affects the entire continents or the world?
what is a pandemic?
what is acupuncture?