EOC Medical review Flashcards
Edward Jenner
Smallpox vaccine
Sigmund Freud
Father of Psychology and Psychiatry
Dr. Philippe Pinel
Humane treatment for mentally ill
Sir Alexander Fleming
Penicillin 1928
Wilhelm Roentgen
X rays
Dorthea Dix
Superintendent of Female Nurses of the Army
Clara Barton
Red Cross Founder
Christian Barnard
First successful heart transplant
George Papanicolaou
Pap test for cervical cancer
Rene Laennec
Stethoscope
Andreas Vesalius
Anatomy book
Claudius Galen
4 humors of the body, blood black and yellow bile
Jonas Salk
Polio vaccine
Ben Franklin
Bifocals
Florence Nightingale
modern nursing
Gregory Mendel
basis for heredity
Hippocrates
Father of Medicine
1st to organize med care for soldiers; hospitals; public health sanitation systems
Ancient Romans
Earliest health records; physicians were priests
Ancient Egyptians
Anton van Leewenhoek
microscope
Medicaid
AR kids 1st etc; funded by government
Medicare
65+; end state renal disease
OSHA
establishes and enforces safety
FDA
Food and Drug admin.
NIH
researches disease
CDC
Centers for disease control and prevention
Deductible
$$ that must be paid by insured before policy begins to pay
Co-payment
$$ paid by insured at the time of services needed