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Medical JeopardyHistory of Medicine and Medical Systems and Organizations
REMEMBER; YOU CANT BE EXEMPT 2 WEEKS IN A ROW!
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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