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Achilles

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Named for story of youth whose mother who dipped held him by heel and dipped him into the river Styx, tendon was not immersed

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Atlas

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First cervical vertebra named for famous Greek Titan who was condemned to bear the heavens on his shoulders

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Venus

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Roman goddess of love

Venereal diseases are also named after her.

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Aphrodite

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Greek goddess of love and beauty

Gave her name to the sex arousing drugs known as aphrodisiacs

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Aesculapius

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The son of Apollo revered as the first god of medicine. His staff which is encircled by a serpent signifies the art of healing and is used by the AMA as the symbol of medicine.

  (caduceus)
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Moses

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First public health officer

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Hippocrates

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Father of medicine

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Louis Pastuer

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Father of bacteriology

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Joseph Lister

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Father of sterile surgery

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Robert Koch

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Cholera

Discovered the cause of cholera

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Paul Enrich

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Chemotherapy
A pioneer in fields of bacteriology, immunology and especially chemotherapy also discovered cure for syphilis (formula 606)

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Florence Nightingale

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Founder of nursing

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Clara Barton

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Founder of the American red cross

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WHO

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World health organization

Founded in 1948

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DHHS

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Department of health and human services

Helps americans who are unable to help themselves

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CDC

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Centers for disease control and prevention

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CLIA

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Clinical laboratory improvement act legislation

Legally governs quality in laboratory testing and reporting

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Who do we credit for the first anotomical description

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Versalius

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What was Leeuwnboek able to view under his lens

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Semen, blood, bacteria

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What did Lister use to make things sterile

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Carbolic acid

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Galen

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Prince of physicians

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Andreas Versalius

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Father of modern anatomy

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Anton Van Leeuwnhoek

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Grinder of lenses

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John Hunter

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Founder of scientific surgery

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Edward Jenner

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First smallpox vaccination

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Ignatz Semmel Weiss

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Aseptic Technique

Savior of mothers

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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First U.S. female doctor

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Margaret Sanger

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American leader in birth control

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AAMA

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American association of medical assistants

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CMAA

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California medical assistants association

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AMT

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American medical technologists

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AAMT

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American association for medical transcriptionists

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