Training And Hospitals 1750+ Flashcards
What were doctors like in 1930?
Patients paid. Germs known but genetic disease not. Royal College can fire failing doctors. More equiment (x-rays/blood tests). Vaccines plus sulphonamide drugs.
What were doctors like in 1860? (5 main points)
Relied on patients to pay. Miasma and spontaneous generation. Government no part in regulating specification. Limited equipment. Bleeding and herbal remedies.
What were doctors like in 2009?
Government paid.
Knows diseases caused by bacteria and genes.
Government regulates training.
Royal college fires bad doctors.
Hi-tech equipment.
Preventative medicine/antibiotics/vaccines.
What were hospitals like in 1800?
Camped.
Poor sewage.
No trained staff.
Lots of deaths.
What was the main impact of Florence Nightingale considered to be?
Improving conditions in hospitals
What is Nightingale famous for?
Cleaning up hospitals and lowering death rates drastically.
What two books did Nightingale write?
Notes on nursing and notes on hospitals
What did nightingale recommend for hospitals?
Sanitation (toilets/clean water/sewage).
Good ventilation (miasma).
Good supplies.
What did Nightingale not teach her students?
Germ theory as she thought it would get in the way
What did Nightingale teach?
Mainly practical skills in looking after patients.
What other factors impacted nursing and hospitals?
Improved engineering (better sewers/water).
Better surgery needed better nurses.
Germ theory.
Midwives act making sure all midwives were registered.
Why could women not become doctors in 1800?
It required University training and women were not allowed to go to university
How did Elizabeth Garret Anderson become a doctor?
Attended lectures after court case with University and took exams in France to qualify as doctor amd midwife both allowing her to become a doctor.
How did other factors allow women to become doctors?
Six women led by Sophia Jex-Blake persuaded Edinburgh to let them join lectures.
1876-parliament gave same rights to education to women as to men.
