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Also functioned as surgeons at one time by using the the same blade to cut hair, shave, and perform bloodletting.
Who are barbers?
Covers on the very poor.
What is Medicaid?
This dentist employed Nitrous Oxide as an anesthetic around 1846 for tooth extractions.
Who is Horace Wells?
A physician in family practice, general internal medicine, or general pediatrics.
What is a generalist?
The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of outcomes within the group.
What is population health?
Where built by the state governments to hold patients with untreatable and chronic mental illness.
What is an Asylum?
Much of the transformation of U.S. medicine occurred in the aftermath of this.
What is the American Civil War?
Often referred to as the father of antiseptic surgery.
Who is Joseph Lister?
This health care professional plays a central role in health care services by evaluating a patient’s health condition, diagnosing abnormalities, and prescribing treatment.
What is a physician?
Composed of health care professionals from varying disciplines who work together to make treatment decisions.
What are multidisciplinary teams? (MDTs)
Know as the father of American psychiatry.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush?
Covers all elderly persons, nonelderly disabled persons on Social Security, and nonelderly persons with end-stage renal disease.
What is Medicare?
This person is generally credited with pioneering the germ theory of disease and microbiology around 1860.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
A physician who specializes in specific health care problems—for example, anesthesiologists, cardiologists, and oncologists.
What is a specialist?
Delivery of medical care that is based on the patient’s unique characteristics, such as genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors.
What is precision medicine?
An unspecialized institution during the 18th and mid-19th centuries that mainly served general welfare functions, provided shelter to homeless individuals, mentally ill individuals, elderly individuals, orphans, and sick people who had no family to care for them.
What are Almshouses?
A center for advanced technology used in medical diagnosis and treatment and for the training of various types of health care personnel.
What is a hospital?
This man discovered the antibacterial properties of Penicillin in 1929.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This health care professional's main role is to diagnose and treat problems related to the teeth, gums, and tissues of the mouth.
Who is a dentist?
Focus on the whole community, rather than on the individual, and work to address issues such as access to health care, infectious disease control, environmental health issues, and violence and injury issues.
Who are public health professionals?
Used to isolate people who had contracted a contagious disease such as cholera, smallpox, typhoid, or yellow fever. Their main function was to contain the spread of communicable disease and protect the inhabitants of a city.
What is a Pesthouse?
Advances in diagnostics and imaging can be traced to the discovery of x-rays in 1895 by this German professor of physics.
Who is Wilhelm Roentgen?
This Hungarian physician implemented the policy of hand washing in a hospital in Vienna.
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
These constitute the largest group of health care professionals.
Who are nurses?
The care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values, in which patient values guide all clinical decisions
What is patient-centered care?