Specialties
Refers to healthcare providers who are the first stop when a person is sick or needs a checkup.
What are Primary Care Physicians?
This term refers to the patient's main reasoning for coming into the office to see the doctor.
What is "Chief Complaint"?
This component of the patient history refers to when the pain/problem began.
What is onset?
This country spends the most on healthcare compared to other economically developed countries.
What is the United States?
This term refers to prejudice against a person or group of people on the basis of their ethnicity or race.
What is racism?
Refers to a healthcare provider who sees children, usually until they reach 18-21 years of age.
What is a pediatrician?
Refers to a category of conditions which affects a patient over a LONG period of time, and a history of this must be taken ALONGSIDE the patient's present illness.
What are "chronic illnesses/problems"?
This component of the patient history refers to what makes the pain/problem worse.
What are provocations?
A field of health which has to do with one's psychological and emotional well-being.
What is mental health?
This term refers to preventable health differences between groups.
What are health disparities?
Refers to a doctor who cares for the whole family, including infants and elderly.
Should be documented as an EXACT replica of what the patient said.
What is a chief complaint?
This component of the patient history refers to the NATURE of the pain.
What is quality?
This term refers to the highest level of health possible for everyone. It addresses differences in population health that can be traced to unequal economic and social conditions that are systemic and AVOIDABLE.
What is "health equity"?
An area where it is difficult to find/buy healthy or fresh food.
What is a "food desert"?
Refers to a doctor who mainly diagnoses and treats the female reproductive system, but does NOT focus on pregnancy or childbirth.
What is a Gynecologist?
This is what the physician does (or asks) after obtaining the chief complaint from the patient.
The four cardinal signs on this are redness, warmth, pain, and loss of function.
What is "inflammation"?
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age that affect their health outcomes.
What are "social determinants of health"?
This term refers to forces such as corporations, governments, or non-profit organizations, who all make decisions that impact how health resources are distributed.
What are "institutions with power"? (or what are "institutions"?)
The age at which most people will go to see a geriatric physician.
What is 65 years old?
This should always be included in the patient's plan, and is often referred to as the "Art of Medicine".
What is "Patient Education/Counseling"?
This concept describes how pain from internal organs can sometimes radiate somewhere else in the body.
What is "referred pain"?
This number equals the number of New Yorkers experiencing food insecurity.
1.2 million
This number (percentage) was the poverty rate in the Bronx in 2022.
What is 27.7%?