Medical JeopardyHistory of Medicine and Medical Systems and Organizations

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A type of insurance the requires you to go ONLY to their network doctors

What is an HMO? (health maintenance organization)

Health insurance for the indigent

What is Medicaid?

The Federal organization charged with making drugs you take safe

What is the FDA? (food and drug administration)

A branch of the United Nations devoted to keeping third world nations healthy

Who is W.H.O?

The first female physician to graduate medical school

Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?

The organization the makes sure your restaurant doesnt have slime in the ice machine.

What is the State Health Department? (you thought it was FDA but there are too many restaurants for Washington to watch so the states set up their own health departments)

The inventor of the first X-ray machine

Who was Wilhelm Roentgen?

The inventor of the first vaccine for smallpox

Who was Dr. Edward Jenner?

The founder of the science of Microbiology

Who was Robert Koch?

Where Ross, Rachel, Monica and Phoebe and Joey meet on TV every day

Friends

He developed many vaccines and explained to the world that disease was caused by germs

Who was Louis Pasteur?

He insisted doctors wash their hands

Who was Joseph Lister?(in England) (also Dr. Semmelweis in Vienna)

The main street in this city is called Louisiana

Houston

Two doctors associated with the development of anesthesia

Who was Dr. Morton and Dr. Simpson but also Dr. Wells (nitrous oxide AKA laughing gas)

The discoverer of the first radioactive element

Who was Madame Curie? (radium and later polonium)

The discovers of Insulin

Who were Banting and Best?

He founded the science of psychoanalysis

Who was Sigmund Freud?

The Copper Canyon in this nation is actually larger than the Grand Canyon? What country is this?

Mexico

This bear from down under is actually not a bear at all but a member of the rodent family

What is a Koala?

Youre taking a lorry to move your furniture and riding a lift to get to your apartment; where do you live?

Britain, a lorry is a truck and a lift is an elevator

Nobel prize winning discovers of DNA

Who are Watson and Crick?

The Allen brothers from New York City founded this city

Houston

He wrote the first anatomy text book

Who was Versalius?

Bram Stoker created this character who was apparently a type of oral phlebotomist

Dracula

If you have a safe working environment, you can thank this federal agency

What is OSHA?(occupational safety hazard administration)

If you hurt yourself on the job, your medical bills will be paid by this organization

What is workers compensation? (employers are required to purchase this federal insurance to cover medical expenses for workers hurt on the job only)

It is charged with preventing the spread of epidemics in America

What is the CDC or Center for Disease Control? (Atlanta, Georgia)

It is the amount you must pay before your insurance kicks in

What is a deductible?

In Vietnam, they call the New Years Holiday this

What is Tet?

St. Andrews in Scotland is famous for being where this sport was invented

Golf

He discovered that blood circulates

Who was William Harvey

What character lives in stately Wayne mansion?

Batman

In ancient times before the Greeks and again in the middle ages, the cause of disease was thought to be this/these.

What are evil spirits?

The father of Persian Medicine

Who was Rhazes al Razi?

They are the ones you apply to in order to get federal money to do medical research

Who is NIH (National Institute of Health)? In Washington, Federal government funds 80% of all U.S. research with your tax dollars)

It is a type of health coverage plan that is completely unrestricted and simply pays eighty percent of all your medical bills regardless of which doctor you go to

What is Major Medical insurance?

It a type of medical facility designed for those who are terminally ill

What is a hospice?

Four nerds associated with a penny: name them.

Raj, Leonard, Wolowitz and Sheldon

It is a type of medical facility you go to detoxify you from drugs or alcohol or to restore your physical functioning

What is a rehabilitation center or facility?

It is the amount of money you pay as a percentage of your medical bills that the insurance carrier doesnt pay

What is a co-pay?

She followed the Yellow Brick Road to get to this city

Who was Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz and she was looking for the Emerald City?

Dr. Lind discovered this nutrient cured/prevented this disease

Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and scurvy

One was the King of Rock, the other the King of Pop

Who was Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley?

Above all else, do not harm is the opening line to this

What is the Hippocratic Oath every doctor/nurse swears to

Thank this guy if your physician gives you a shot of penicillin

Who was Sir Dr. Alexander Fleming

If youre diabetic thank these guy(s)

Who were Banting and Best?

Mary Shelly created this fictional creature who was not so well put together

Who was Frankenstein?

Youre taking a boat ride on the Seine; Where are you?

What is Paris, France?

This senator from Illinois was actually raised in Hawaii

Who is Barack Obama?

She founded the American Red Cross

Who is Clara Barton?

As a result of this Federal law, nursing home workers must be trained, licensed and undergo a background check

What is OBRA?

It is a method of containing and saving medical expenses by grouping all diagnoses into fixed insurance payment categories regardless of how long it takes to treat you.

What is a DRG or Diagnosis Related Group?

If you go to the hospital for an appendix surgery, the insurance carrier will pay one flat fee to the MD and hospital regardless of additional days in hospital or complications so we need to be economical as providers

It is a concept whereby we try and prevent disease by getting you good advice on your lifestyle instead of waiting until you get really sick and cost a lot more to treat

What is wellness care? AKA preventative medicine

He portrays a very intelligent investigative internist M.D. on T.V. and makes miraculous diagnoses with his team of doctors weekly at Princeton Medical school hospital

Who is Hugh Laurie? Dr. Gregory House, M.D. (its Sherlock Holmes detective stories told in medical mystery patients each week)

The location of the largest medical center in the world

Houston Texas (18 hospitals united under TMC)

Polio is essentially eradicated due to the pioneering work of this doctor

Who is/was Dr. jonas Salk?

In order to reduce costs at the hospital, these service organizations have been developed to continue the patients care outside the hospital setting

What is a Home Health Care Agency?

In order to limit the patients use of expensive specialists, HMOs require the patient to see this person first

Who is your family doctor AKA the primary care physician known as PCP

Even with doctors in your HMO network, You cannot visit an expensive specialist unless your PCP feels it is warranted because he/she cant treat it and save the carrier money

To the world of Islam, these two cities are especially holy

What are Medina and Mecca?

It is the fastest growing expense in the American economy

What is the cost of healthcare?

Whats really amazing is that he wrote his last symphony entirely deaf!

Who was Ludwig Von Beethoven?

He used to be married to Nicole then moved on to Katie but despite being a Top Gun this Mission was Impossible

Who is Tom Cruise?

He was sentenced to five years parole for assaulting his singer/girlfriend Rhianna

Who is Chris Brown?

This doctor devised a simple test for cervical cancer

Who was Dr. Papetc. I.e. the Pap Smear

This technique is used for diagnosing the fetus DNA for defects even while the baby is yet unborn

What is amniocentesis?

It means to completely replicate a living organism

What is to clone?

It means to improve a patients health by altering their DNA

What is gene therapy? (genetic engineering)

If you were born before 1948, this is your primary insurance

Medicare

You and your parents are identified as who in the insurance business?

The insured (actually, your parents are the insured and you are dependents of the insured until age 21)

The first heart transplant was performed by him in South Africa

Dr. Christian Barnard

Methodist hospital was founded largely by him

Dr. Michael DeBakey

The three levels of LTCFs in health care are called:

Level one: independent livingLevel two: Assisted livingLevel three: Nursing home

Level four? ..hospice care

Womens reproductive rights were largely pioneered by this woman

Margaret Sanger, planned parenthood

With 60 credit hours youd qualify for this degree

An associates degree, half a bachelors degree of four years of college

A one year nursing program will give you this license

LVN or LPN, licensed vocational/practical nurse

This steamy medical drama takes place in Seattles General Hospital

Greys Anatomy

What is the title of the most common American textbook of human anatomy

Greys Anatomy

Humana, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Aetna in the industry are all called what?

Carriers (of insurance)

Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears actually worked together before they individually found fame; where?

Both were Mousekateers on Disneys Mickey Mouse Club!

He was a Great Gatsby and a Wolf of Wall street

Leonardo DiCaprio

Doctors, nurses and hospitals are all called what in the insurance business?

Providers (of health care)

What Jlo and Cleopatra have in common

Marc Anthony

Its probably the last words youll read in a novel

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