medical care Flashcards
Three types of people who provided medical care
-Women in the family
-Monks and Nuns
-Physicians
Three features of medieval hospitals
-Run by nuns and monks
-Provided a bed, food and spiritual care
-Not like modern hospitals
Two features of medieval leper hospitals
-care was based on religion
-Quarantine not cure
How were hospitals affected by Henry VIII in the renaissance period
They shut down when he closed the monasteries
Two changes regarding doctors in the renaissance period
-Had better training
-Improved knowledge because of the printing press
Two ways doctors had improved in the 19th century
-Needed professional qualifications
-Had to join the General Medical Council
Three features of the work of Florence Nightingale
-wrote notes on nursing
-Improved respect for nurses
-Made schools for nursing
Two changes doctors and nurses have improved in the modern era
-Men and Women can be doctors
-Some nurses are highly specialised
Three improvements to medical care in the modern period because of the NHS
-free diagnosis
-free surgery
-free treatment
What does NHS mean
National health service