History of Healthcare Flashcards

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What were used for illness by early humans?

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Plants and herbs

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Early humans believed illnesses were caused by what?

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Evil spirits

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What is trephination?

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Bearing holes into skulls to relieve “evil spirits”.

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Who were the first people who kept written records of medical treatments?

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Egyptians

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In Egypt, who were often the “doctors”?

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Priests

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What did the Egyptians gain knowledge of, through he process of mummification?

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Anatomy and structure of the body

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Who is the father of medicine?

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Hippocrates

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What did Hippocrates believe?

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He believed that illness was not from the gods

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What did Hippocrates do to observe how the human body worked?

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Talked to the patient to get case history and kept records of observations

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Romans often provided the most healthcare for who?

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Soldiers

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Who thought sanitation was important to the prevention of disease?

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Romans

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Who believed in the dirt and disease link?

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Romans

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What did Romans do to help maintain health and hygiene?

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Built aqueducts and built public baths. Also built sewers for sanitation

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Who was Galen?

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Famous Greek physician

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What did Galen influence?

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The study of anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology.

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When was the extremely poor sanitation?

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The Middle Ages

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What was common during the Middle Ages?

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Starvation and disease.

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During the Middle Ages, what was medicine dominated by?

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Religion

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What were considered the first hospitals?

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During the Middle Ages, monks and nuns took care of the sick in monasteries.

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What are leeches used for?

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To “bleed the sickness out”

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What was opium used for in the Middle Ages?

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Unknowingly decreased infections by cleaning e wounds with what during the Middle Ages?

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What killed 80% of Europe population in 1347?

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The bubonic plague

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What is the bubonic plague?

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A highly contagious form of pneumonia

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What spread the bubonic plague?
An infestation of rats that carried fleas
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When was there a revival of interest in science medicine?
The Renaissance
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Who was the first to dissect bodies?
Leonardo da Vinci
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Who is William Harvey?
Discovered that heart acts as a pump to circulate blood?
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Who is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek?
Invented the first microscope
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Who developed bifocal lenses?
Benjamin Franklin
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Who is Edward Jenner?
Developed the vaccine for small pox
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Who is Rene Laennec?
Invented the stethoscope
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Who is Louis Pasteur?
Understood microbes caused infections | Also founded science of microbiology
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Who is Florence Nightingale?
Mother of nursing. Improved standards of hygiene for wounded soldiers and modernized hospitals.
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Who is Joseph Lister?
Pioneered used of antiseptics in surgery to clean wounds and instruments
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Who is William Roentgen?
German physicist who developed the x-ray
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Who is Alexander Flemming?
Discovered penicillin
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Who is Sigmund Freud?
Father of Psychiatry.
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Banting and Best discovered what?
Insulin, which they experimented with on dogs
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Crick and Watson
Discovered the structure of DNA
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Who is Christian Barnard?
First heart transplant in South Africa
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Ben Carson
First successful separation of conjoined twins and also performed first hemispherectomy.
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What is cost containment?
Saving money
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What are three reasons for high health care costs?
Technology - aging population - medical lawsuits
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What is bulk purchasing?
Cheaper prices to buy huge number of supplies
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What is home health care?
Any nursing or medical therapy that can be given in your home. (Cheaper)
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What is geriatric care?
Care of the elderly (adult day care)
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What is omnibus budget reconciliation act? (OBRA)
Federal government requires trained and skilled workers to take care of elderly folks.
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What is wellness?
Is the state of optimal health
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What is involved in wellness?
Physical, emotional, social, mental/intellectual and spiritual wellness.