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Ethics
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Terminology
Technology in Medicine
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100
The harmful, incorrect, or negligent practice or treatment of a patient by a health care provider.
What is Malpractice?
100
A medical profession that treats children.
What is a pediatrician?
100
The medical term for "new".
What is "neo"?
100
The remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of telecommunications technology.
What is Telemedicine?
100
Term that means every two hours.
What is "q2h"?
200
A patient's personal information given to a health care worker that must be kept confidential.
What is Privileged Communication?
200
An imaging professional that is also a physician.
What is a radiologist?
200
Two different medical terms that mean uterus.
What is "hyster" and "metr"?
200
The application of Telemedicine to the field of Psychiatry.
What is Telepsychiatry?
200
Term that means every two days.
What is "bid"?
300
A more serious crime than a misdemeanor in which the punishment is imprisonment.
What is Felony?
300
A degree that takes six years to acquire.
What is a master's degree?
300
The medical term for the "upper jaw bone".
What is "maxill"?
300
The mammogram is an example of this type of x-ray.
What is a Traditional X-ray?
300
Term that means do not resuscitate.
What is "DNR"?
400
The determining of a person's legal rights either by a lawsuit or some form of legal action.
What is Litigation?
400
The medical doctor who examines specimens of body tissue, fluids, and secretions to diagnose a disease.
What is a Radiologic Technician?
400
The english translation of the medical term "turbin".
What is "change"?
400
An ultrasound is an example of this type of imaging.
What is Sonography?
400
This abbreviation means cubic centimeters.
What is "cc"?
500
A legal relationship between individuals.
What is Civil Law?
500
The health care professional that would administer radio opaque media (dye) before a scan.
What is a Pathologist?
500
The english translation for the medical term "phak".
What is "lens"?
500
A medical scanning machine that uses magnetic and radio waves, meaning that there is no exposure to X-rays or any other damaging forms of radiation.
What is an MRI?
500
This term stands for prescription.
What is "Rx"?