Types of Doctors
a student enrolled at a medical school who is training to become a physician
What is a medical student
A record of information about a patient’s past and current health. Includes information about the patient’s habits, lifestyle, and even the health of their family.
What is Medical History
Measurements—specifically pulse rate, temperature, respiration rate, and blood pressure—that indicate the state of a patient’s essential body functions.
What are vital signs?
This visit typically involves checking the normal functioning of all of the systems of the body and may be completed by a variety of medical professionals including doctors, nurse practitioners, or physician assistants.
What is a physical?
What is the order of energy usage?
-uses sophisticated equipment and has different responsibilities. Some work directly with patients( ex. phlebotomist) others work in labs.
What is a Medical Technician
The patient’s description of what they feel is their main health problem.
What is a chief complaint?
The rhythmic expansion and recoil of arteries resulting from heart contraction.
What is pulse?
Uses an otoscope to perform this test
What is an ear and mouth exam?
Good cholesterol and good fats are
What is HDLs and unsaturated fats
health care provider who practices either in collaboration with or under the supervision of a physician. Ex. physician assistants, nurse practitioner, etc.
What is a Non-physician practitioner?
Pieces of evidence that indicate an illness that can be observed externally, such as a rash, coughing, or elevated temperature.
What is physical signs
The number of breaths an organism takes per minute.
What respiratory rate?
Uses an ophthalmoscope to perform this examination?
Eye exam
What is bad cholesterol and bad fats?
LDLs and saturated
provide care at the clinic, ex. Genetic counselors, psychiatrists, special physicians.
What is a specialist?
Any subjective evidence of disease a patient perceives, such as aches, nausea, or fatigue. Symptoms allow the health care provider to narrow down the possible conditions that may be affecting the patient and then run tests to make a diagnosis.
What are symptoms?
The force of blood moving through blood vessels.
What is blood pressure?
Clear, Wheezing, Crackles, Stridor and Rhonchi are what?
What are sounds of the lungs?
Examples of foods with saturated fats?
Fast food, processed food, food kept at room temp
specialist trained to work in the front line of a healthcare system and provide care for any health problems that a patient might have.
What is a Primary Care Physician
The process of determining which disease or condition explains a person’s symptoms and signs.
What is a diagnosis?
The maintenance of stable internal physiological conditions (like body temperature or the pH of blood), which enables the optimal functioning of an organism.
What is Homeostasis?
5 parts of a CBC are
What is white blood cell count, red blood cell count, hemoglobin, hematocrit, and platelets
Too much glucose in the blood from the body not being able to use it properly is what