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1
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What were professions 17,000 years ago?

A
  • diviner
  • witch doctor
  • herbalist
  • birth attendants
  • bone setter
  • priests
2
Q

What was a new profession in siberia?

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Shaman

3
Q

What did shamans do to cure?

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Used amulets and talisman- had spiritual powers

4
Q

What skills did shamans have?

A

Medical + social

5
Q

Who was mesopotamia and what jobs did they have?

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  • Iraq
  • Seer: divination
  • Priest: exorcism
  • Physician: drug + surgery
6
Q

How did egypt develop health?

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3 millennium BC- physician combined religion + magic (drugs) + surgery

7
Q

What did greek believe in?

A

Asklepius: god of healing
Hygein: health
panacea: cure all

8
Q

What did Hippocratic do?

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Greek-5th century- natural theory of 4 humor= didnt believe in god

9
Q

What is 4 humor theory?

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Any shift= bad health

  • blood
  • phlegm
  • black bile
  • yellow bile
10
Q

What 3 factor were important in 4 humor theory?

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  • sensible life style
  • food
  • exercise
  • medicine
11
Q

What is strength of hippocratic?

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friends of sick= medical attention

12
Q

What is fault hippocratic?

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Knew too little anatomy

13
Q

What is galen in charge of?

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  • dissecting animal + studying anatomy
  • believed in 4 humors theory
  • no human dissection
14
Q

What did rome do after Galen time?

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Church banned anything but galen- healers left.

15
Q

What happened in dark ages to east?

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golden age- translated galen work.

16
Q

What happened to europe in 12 century?

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Italy made universities- physician had to study to distinguish them from healers

17
Q

What is procedure of medicine- 20th century?

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Check history -> diagnose disease -> perscribe

18
Q

1500- what happened in london?

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college formed

19
Q

What method- hippocrate or galen- did 20 century doctors choose?

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Hippocratic= smooth
galen= violent
patients chose

20
Q

True or false- Flexner was a doctor

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False- a teacher

21
Q

What did flexner do?

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Checked med schools and rated them on their education

22
Q

What was the consideration of flexner report?

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  • did it forget ethos?
  • was something lost?
  • What was the cost of success?
23
Q

Who said “good physician treat the disease, great physician treat the patient who has the disease”?

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William osler- flexnerian had wrong priority

24
Q

What is national insurance act?

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UK- has gatekeeper

1911

25
Q

What is US view to gate keeper?

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Doesn’t exist- people went to specialist