Primary and Specialty Care
The first-contact care, is regarded as the portal of entry to the health care system
What is primary care?
The two licenses a physician is required by the state before they can practice medicine. Physicians only need one.
What are MD and DO?
Medical training was largely recieved through individual apprenticeship with a physician rather than through university education until _____
What is 1870?
The medical discovery of anesthesia was instrumental in advancing practices of surgery. This first use of an anesthesia was ____ around 1846.
What is Nitrous oxide (laughing gas)?
This association played a critical role in galvanizing the medical profession and in protecting the interests of physicians
What is the American Medical Association?
Primary care is _____, primary care providers follow a patient through the course of treatment and coordinate various activities, such as initial diagnosis, treatment, referral, consultation, monitoring, and follow-up.
"whole person" approach to medicine. Emphasizes musculoskeletal system and stress preventive medicine
What is osteopathic medicine?
These countries had far more advanced medical services than the US in the late 1800s.
What are Great Britain, France, and Germany?
Around 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician implemented this practice because of high death rates from puerperal fever among women after childbirth.
What is hand washing?
Medicare covers ______
What are all elderly persons, non-elderly disabled persons on Social Security, and nonelderly persons with end-stage renal disease?
Deals with particular diseases or organ systems of the body and is limited in scope to episodes of illness, specific organ systems, or the disease process.
What is specialty care?
Views medical treatment as an active intervention to produce a counteracting reaction to neutralize effects. The holistic approach to patient care.
What is allopathic medicine
This physician believed mental illness was caused by irritation to blood vessels in the brain and had treatment methods such as bleeding, purging, hot and cold baths and mercury.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush?
This was used to sterilize woulds in 1865 by Joseph Lister.
What is carbolic acid?
This was the first broad-coverage health insurance in the US.
What is worker's compensation?
The reasons primary care physicians serve as gatekeepers.
What is controlling costs, utilization rates, and the rational allocation of resources?
What is the National Board of Medical Examiners?
In early stages of US medicine, well-educated clergymen and government officials were more educated in medicine than many physicians because _____
What is the ability for anyone trained or untrained could practice as a physician?
This was the first machine-based specialty.
What is Radiology?
This president was the first to make a direct appeal for a national health care program.
Who is Harry Truman?
Primary care medical students spend a significant amount of time in ______, familiarizing themselves with a variety of patient conditions and problems.
What are ambulatory care settings?
The number of active physicians, both MDs and DOs, has steadily increased in the US, rising from ___ to ___ physicians per 10,000 people from 1950 to 2016
What is 14.1 to 27.2?
Asylums were used to treat mental patients, and untreatable, mental illness. Asylums also had another intention for US society.
What is to prevent aimlessly wandering people with serious mental illness from being put in jail?
He pioneered the germ theory of disease and microbiology around 1860 that led to sterilization techniques such as boiling to kill microorganisms and withholding exposure to air to prevent contamination
Who is Louis Pasteur?
A term used to describe the large-scale government-sponsored expansion of health insurance. Created through stigmatizing the introduction of national health insurance that did not align with American values.
What is socialized medicine?