Medical Services in Preindustrial America
What are mentally ill patients?
The growth and development of a medical profession that benefited from urbanization, new scientific discoveries, and reforms in medical education.
What is Postindustrial medicine?
What is workers compensation?
They play a central role in health care services by evaluating a patient's health condition, diagnosing abnormalities, and prescribing treatment.
What is a Physician?
Their main role diagnoses and treats problems related to teeth, gums, and tissues of the mouth.
What is a Dentist?
What is Pre medical training?
This a series of gases with strong doses of alcohol, it was first discovered in 1846 for a tooth extraction (laughing gas).
What is Anesthesia?
What is the Birth of Blue Shield?
Trained in allopathic medicine, which views medical treatment as an active intervention to produce a counteracting reaction in an attempt to neutralize the effects of disease.
What is an MD?
They dispense medicines prescribed by physicians, dentist, podiatrist and provide consultation on proper use and selection of medicine.
What is a Pharmacist?
This place was occupied by destitute and disruptive elements of society resigned, also known as the poorhouse.
What is an Almshouse?
This was discovered in 1895 and was used to take pictures(x-rays) to be able to diagnose patients.
What is radiology?
Any subsequent attempts to introduce national health insurance were met with a stigmatizing label.
What is socialized medicine?
A physician that practices Osteopathic Medicine that emphasizes the musculoskeletal system.
What is an DO?
They provide vision care, such as examination, diagnosis and correction of vision problems.
What is an Optometrist?
This institute was meant to prevent aimlessly wandering people with serious mental illness from being put in jail.
What is an Asylum?
What is the American Medical Association?
This act federal grants were given to the states so they could extend health services under their welfare programs to low-income elderly persons.
What is the Kerr-Mills act?
This Physician treats patients with less severe problems and refer patients with special problems to a specialist.
What is a Primary care physician?
They provide patients with mental health care.
What is a Psychologist?
This is described as a wooden chair in which a patient would be strapped across his/her chest, abdomen, knees, and ankles.
What is a Tranquilizer chair?
The mental healthcare shifted form mental asylums to community based mental health services.
What is Reform of Mental Health Care?
A state financed programs to help the very poor people have insurance.
What is Medicaid?
This delivery system was ingrained into the U.S. health care system for three reasons: medical technology, reimbursement methods and remuneration.
They provide treatment for diseases or deformities of the feet with surgeries, prescribing medications, corrective devices and administrating physiotherapy.