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- gregory mendel
- established the patterns of heredity
- gastroenterologist
- doctor of stomach and intestine
- egyptians
- earliest people known to maintain accurate health records
- chinese
- used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion
- hypnosis
- technique used to induce a transistive state so a person is more receptive to suggestion
- malpractice
- failure of a professional to use the degree of skill and learning commonly expected in that individuals proffesion,
- william roentogen
- discovered x rays in 1895
- patients rights
- factors of care that patients can expect to recieve
- clara barton
- isolated radium in 1910
- onocologist
- doctor of tumors
- empathy
- being able to identify and understand another persons feelings
- ethics
- a set of principals relating to what is right or wrong
- health insurance plans
- helps pay for the cost of health insurance
- acupuncture
- involves insertion of very thin needles into specific points along the meridian.
- gynecologist
- doctor of female reproductive system
- contract
- agreement between 2 parties
- jonas salk
- develeloped polio vaccine
- joseph lister
- began useing disinfectiants and antiseptics during surgery
- louis pasteur
- began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria
- hospital
- institition that provides medical or surgical care and treatment for sick or injured patients
- dark ages
- pandamenic of bubonic plague killed millions of people
- rhazes
- an arab physician who began the use of animal gut for surture material
- er
- emergency room provides care for accidents or sudden illness
- homopathy
- uses minute doses of natural drugs to produce symtoms of the disease being treated based on the belief this will stimulate the immune system to remove toxins
- dental offices
- provide care for teeth and dental disease
- gabriel fahrenheit
- created the first mercury thermometer
- negligence
- failure to give care that is noramlly expected of a person in a particular position resulting in injury to another person
- leonardo di vinci
- used dissection to draw the human body
- acceptance of critisism
- people may critisize you and some critisism will be constructive and allow you to improve your work
- honesty
- truthfullness and integrity are important in any career field
- florence nightengale
- founder of modern nursing
- sir alexander flemming
- discovered penicllin
- therepudic
- aimed at making well.
- orthopedist
- doctor of muscles and bones
- clean
- means that objects or parts of objects do not contain disease producing organisms and therefore have minimal chance of spreading the disease
- lab
- perform special diagnostic tests
- hipocrates
- the father of medicine
- robert koch
- developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens
- competence
- being qualified and capable of performing a task
- clara barton
- founded the american red cross
- romans
- began public health systems
- bacteria
- simple, one-celled organisms
- william harvey
- described the circulation of blood to and from the heart
- asepsis
- the absence of disease causing organisms
- edward jenner
- developed a vaccine for smallpox