People in Medicine
What is a pandemic?
Working under the supervision of a doctor, prep patients for exams, take vital signs and medical histories, assist in procedures, take lab samples, and administers injections and treatments.
Who are Medical Assistants?
This type of center specializes in vision examinations, prescribe eyeglasses or contact lenses as well as check for eye diseases.
What are Optical Centers?
These specialized physicians treat, diagnosis and evaluate diseases and disorders of the mucles and bones.
Who are Orthopedist?
This physician invented the stethoscope. He studied the sounds of the heart and lungs and correlated them to pulmonary and heart diseases.
This infectious disease that affects a large number of people within a population, community, or a region at the same time.
What is an epidemic?
Physicians who specialize is diagnosis and treating mental illness
Who are psychiatrist?
Designed to provide care in a patients home.
What is Home Health Care?
Provide care, diagnosis and treatment for diseases of the intestines and stomach.
Who are Gastroenterologist?
She is considered the founder of the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
A set of federal regulations adopted in 1996 to protect the confidentiality of patient information and the ability to retain health insurance.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
Provide emergency care in a prehospital setting to victims of accidents, illness or injuries.
What is an EMT?
What are Rehabilitation Facilites?
Who are Nephrologist?
This chemist is known for his germ theory and discovered a process for pasteurization, vaccinations and fermentation.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
What is Integrative Health Care?
Identify specific diagnosis, procedures and services from a patients medical record and assign specific billing codes.
Who are Medical Coders?
These centers specialize in the prenatal screening process to check for genetic abnormalities and birth defects.
What are Genetic Counseling Centers?
This physician is an expert in the field of Ears, Nose and Throat illness or disease.
Who are Otolaryngologist?
These two scientist share a Nobel Peace Prize for their accomplishments in discovering the structure of DNA.
Who are Francis Crick and James Watson?
What is an electrocardiogram?
Identify, evaluate, and treat patients with speech and language disorders.
Who are speech- language pathologist?
These facilites provide assistance and care for elderly or disabled patients or those with chronic illnesses.
What are Long Term Care Facilities?
Provide care to patients in hospitals
Who are hospitalist?