Medicine Chapter 5 Flashcards
When was the emergency medical service created
1939
What year did a bomb land in Sutton and how many people did it kill
1940
30 mothers and babies
In 1931 what percentage of doctors were women
10% of the 30,000 doctors were women
Why did many medical schools discourage female students in the 1920s
They thought training women was a waste of time because they would marry a man and have a family
Some men believed it destroyed the delicate nature of women
Some of the male students did not want to work alongside women
What role and job were women commonly pushed to do
Become a GP
What was an issue from 1920s to 1930s regarding men and women doctors
Worm doctors were often payed less
What was the increase in female medical students from the years 1938 - 1946
2000 in 1938
2900 in 1946
Why did evacuation put pressure on hospitals
Most hospitals were in towns or cities and very few were in the countryside and they lacked extensive facilities
They were more and more voluntary medical help in the country due to not many doctors working there
How many QAIMNS were working abroad and in what year
Around 500 in 1938
By the end of the war what was different about the QAIMNS
They had physical and military training which included self-defence, climbing, how to jump from a ship to a boat and how to move through barbed wire
during the First World War what was the average time between injury and operation
14 hours
In what year did Harold gillies release a book and what was it called
1920 and it was called plastic surgery of the face
What was included in the Beveridge report in 1942
WANT- the problems of poverty and not having enough money or food
DISEASE
IGNORANCE - lack of education, meaning people were unlikely to get better jobs
SQUALOR - living in dirty and unhygienic conditions
IDLENESS - unemployment , meaning people were more likely to be depressed and become addicts
When was the national health service act passed
1946
Who setup the NHS
Aneurin Bevan
