Medical Services in Postindustrial America
This association played a critical role in galvanizing the medical profession and protecting the interests of physicians.
What is American Medical Association (AMA)?
This system was originally designed to make cash payments to workers for wages lost because of job-related injuries and disease.
What is worker's compensation?
The professional's main role is to diagnose and treat problems related to the teeth, gums, and tissues of the mouth.
What is a dentist?
Much of the transformation in U.S. medicine occurred after this was between the dates of 1861-1865.
What is the American Civil War?
The discovery of this was instrumental in advancing the practice of surgery.
What is anesthesia?
The place reformed medical education when it opened its medical school in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1893.
What is Johns Hopkins University?
This network created a boom in hospital insurance between 1940 and 1950 and the proportion of the U.S.population covered by hospital insurance increased from 9% to 57%.
What is the Blue Cross Network?
This professional's role is to dispense medicines prescribed by physicians, dentists, and podiatrists and to provide consultation on the proper selection and use of medicine.
What is a pharamacist?
Medicine became increasingly driven by these two things.
What are science and technology?
This person was credited with the germ theory of disease and microbiology and demonstrated techniques, such as boiling to kill microorganisms and withholding expose to air to prevent contamination.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This was based on the inspection of medical schools.
What is the Flexner Report?
In 1939, is association started the first Blue Shield plan, which was designed to pay physicians' fees.
What is California Medical Association?
This profession plays a central role in health care services by evaluating a patient's health condition, diagnosing abnormalities, and prescribing treatment.
What is a Physician?
This created an increased reliance on the specialized skills of paid professionals, as this trend distanced people from family-based care.
What is urbanization?
Around 1847, this Hungarian physician implemented the policy of hand washing which then became an antiseptic technique.
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
This movement intensified after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1999 decision directed states to provide community-based services to people with mental illness.
What is the deinstitutionalization movement?
Who introduced the bill in 1957 that started the momentum for including necessary hospital and nursing home care as an extension of Social Security benefits.
Who is Aime Forand?
These professionals are involved in inpatient medicine, and their roles parallel those of primary care physicians in an outpatient setting, in that they manage the care of hospitalized patients.
What is a hospitalist?
These things helped bring a certain practice into a category of a legitimate profession: developments in bacteriology, antiseptic surgery, anesthesia, immunology, and diagnostic techniques.
What is medical practice?
Advances in diagnostics and imaging can be traced to the discovery of x-rays in 1895 by this man.
Who is Wilhelm Roentgen?
This created increased reliance on the specialized skills of paid professionals.
What is urbanization?
Under this act, federal grants were given to states so they could extend health services under their welfare programs to low income elderly persons.
What is the Medical Assistance Act or the Kerr-Mills Act?
These professional's perform activities such as collaborating and consulting with other health care professionals, educating patients and nurses, collecting data for clinical research projects, and more.
What is Advanced-Practice Nurses?
This form of medicine created an increased demand for the advanced services that only trained professionals could provide.
This person is referred to as the father of antiseptic around 1865 when he used carbolic acid to was wounds and popularized the chemical inhibition of infection during surgery.
Who is Joseph Lister?