Also called soft skills, are positive behavior traits and exemplary personality characteristics, such as etiquette, commitment, and respect for others
What are interpersonal skills?
100
A doctor injects a patient with a lethal dose of medication, illegal in every state
What is euthanasia?
100
American Association of Medical Assistants
What is the AAMA?
100
Physician who assumes the overall treatment of a patient, also referred to as a gatekeeper, in managed care plan
What is a primary care physician (PCP)?
100
Also called a minute-clinic, offers a limited range of basic tests and treatments at a low cost, such as immunizations, cholesterol screening, and blood pressure testing
What is an in-store clinic?
200
Being able to put yourself in the patient's situation or understanding his or her point of view
What is empathy?
200
Offers medical care and support to patients and family members dealing with a terminal illness and the loss of a loved one
What is a hospice?
200
American Medical Technologists
What is AMT?
200
Health care delivery system emphasizing preventive medicine, utilization of services, and a network of providers and that requires preauthorization for services and care
What is managed care?
200
24-hour acute care and treatment for the sick and injured and for surgery divided into units depending on the illness or injury
What is a hospital?
300
A Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies who devised the theory of the five stages of grief
Who is Elizabeth Kübler-Ross?
300
Credentialing sanctioned by a state's legislature
What is licensure?
300
The father of medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
300
Managed care plan offering prepaid health care for a fixed fee from preselected providers, including a PCP; the most popular managed health care plan
What is a health maintenance organization (HMO)?
300
24-hour monitoring by a nursing staff for patients whose conditions are critical, guarded, or unstable
What is an intensive care unit (ICU)?
400
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
What are the five stages of grief?
400
The act of making something official; official approval to do something professionally or legally
What is certification?
400
Symbol of the medical profession
What is the caduceus?
400
Provides walk-in capability for minor emergencies and urgent health problems in lieu of ERs; has lab, x-ray equipment, and physical therapists
What is an urgent care center?
400
Hospital affiliated with a university that utilizes the services of doctors who continue training after medical school
What is a teaching hospital?
500
Licensed physicians may prescribe lethal medications (barbiturates) for voluntary self-administration by state residents in Oregon, Washington, Vermont, New Mexico, and Montana
What is the Death with Dignity Act?
500
A continuing education process in which the health care professional is awarded continuing education units (CEUs)
What is recertification?
500
Method of payment where the physician gets paid according to a specific schedule of fees
What is fee-for-service?
500
Offers a broad range of specialties and sophisticated testing equipment; may be a department in a hospital where patients do not have to be admitted