Deck 1: Reflections of the Past

Question 1

The first physicians most likely to have used castor oil and peppermint as drugs were __________.

A) Greek
B) Roman
C) Hindu
D) Egyptian

Answer 1

D

Question 2

As early as 1134 B.C. these ancient ruins demonstrate evidence that patients were being treated holistically in __________.

A) Greek temples
B) Roman temples
C) Mohammedan asylums
D) Serbian temples

Answer 2

A

Question 3

__________ employed the principles of percussion, ausculation, kept detailed clinical records, and performed numerous surgical procedures was

A) Rhazes
B) Hippocrates
C) Muhammad
D) Bernard

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The writings of Hippocrates were preserved by __________.

A) Dutch merchants
B) Van Leeuwenhook
C) Monks
D) barber surgeons

Question 5

Although __________ did not invent the first microscope, he was able to perfect it.

A) Van Leeuwenhook
B) Fenwick
C) Lister
D) Pasteur

Question 6

The person who claimed that the alarming number of deaths from puerperal fever was due to infection transmitted by students came directly from the dissecting room to take care of maternity patients __________.

A) Pasteur
B) Morgan
C) Rhazes
D) Semmelweis

Question 7

__________ is often referred to as the first hospital administrator.

A) Bedford Fenwick
B) W.G. Wylie
C) Florence Nightingale
D) John Hopkins

Question 8

The first incorporated hospital in the U.S. was founded in __________.

A) Boston
B) Philadelphia
C) Manhattan
D) Richmond

Question 9

__________ is credited with the discovery of the X-ray

A) Halstead
B) Whipple
C) McCollum
D) Roentgen

Question 10

The discoverer of vitamins A and B (which played an important role in the advancement of medicine of the 20th century) is credited to __________.

A) Goldberger
B) McCollum
C) Huldschinsky
D) Finlay

Question 11

The inventor of the electrocardiograph, which marked the beginning of medicine in the 20th century is credited to __________.

A) Einthoven
B) Einstein'
C) Eisenberg
D) Ernst

Question 12

Reform in medical education early in the 20th century was due to __________.

A) hospital administrators
B) standardization
C) National League of Nursing
D) Council on Medical Education and Hospitals

Question 13

With the goal of providing the best professional, scientific and humanitarian care possible, the focus of efforts in hospital standardization was the ___________.

A) Whipple
B) Patient
C) Nurse
D) Nurses and physicians

Question 14

Hospitals first appeared in as aesculapia (named after a god of medicine) __________.

A) Egypt
B) Greece
C) Spain
D) Greenland

Question 15

__________ introduced steam sterilization in 1886, which was of great importance for infection control in hospitals.

A) Bergmann
B) Konrad
C) McCollum
D) Halstead

Question 16

__________ produced experimental rickets.

A) Wasserman
B) Fenwick
C) Virchow
D) Finlay

Question 17

Two of the significant influences in the development of surgical procedures were __________.

A) carbolic solution and ventilation systems
B) sterilization and cell theory
C) anesthesia and antiseptics
D) anatomy and cell theory

Question 18

__________ showed that wound healing could be hastened by using antiseptics.

A) Lister
B) Halstead
C) Pasteur
D) Semmelweis

Question 19

__________ was the first hospital where anesthesia was first publicly demonstrated in 1846.

A) John Hopkins Hospital
B) Pennsylvania Hospital
C) New York Hospital
D) Massachusetts General Hospital

Question 20

Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the __________ on March 23, 2010. The legislation is designed to ensure that more Americans receive healthcare benefits.

A) National Insurance
B) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
C) Obama Care
D) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Question 21

__________ published a book in 1775 describing frightful conditions existing in hospitals

A) John Jones
B) Thomas Bond
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) William Penn

Question 22

In 1918, the American College of Surgeons drew up a "constitution" for hospitals setting forth the requirements for the care of the sick. This document was known as the __________.

A) minimum standard
B) strict liability doctrine
C) medical practice standards
D) national health insurance

Question 23

The primary function of a hospital is to provide __________.

A) a work environment for professional staff
B) shelter for the homeless
C) laboratories to conduct research
D) a place to care for the sick and injured

Question 24

The scope of services provided by a hospital __________.

A) remain constant
B) are in a continuing state of change
C) have been pre-established
D) have been shrinking over the past 50 years

Question 25

The American College of Surgeons was founded in 1913 under the leadership of __________.

A) Carlos Finlay
B) August Von Wasserman
C) Casimir
D) Franklin H. Martin

Question 26

The first American nursing school was established in 1872 at __________.

A) Roosevelt Hospital
B) Bellevue Hospital
C) Sinai Hospital
D) Brigham and Women's Hospital

Question 27

Engraved on a limestone pillar dating back to the Summerians (2920 B.C.) are pictures of the __________.

A) Mohammedan hospitals
B) assemblage of wounded soldiers
C) various physical ailments
D) Socrates

Question 28

The hospital that was most likely typical of the better hospitals of the Middle Ages __________.

A) London University Hospital
B) New London
C) Hotel-Dieu of Paris
D) Winston

Question 29

The first psychiatric hospital founded in the U.S. was located in __________.

A) Norfolk, VA
B) Richmond , VA
C) Williamsburg, VA
D) New York, NY

Question 30

A dentist who developed sulfuric ether and arranged for the first hospital operation under anesthesia was __________.

A) W.T.G. Morgan
B) Dr. Nathan Smith Davis
C) Ignatz Philipp Semelweis
D) Crawford Long

Question 31

At the beginning of the 21st century approximately __________ Americans do not have health insurance

A) 148 million
B) 49 million
C) 46,000 thousand
D) 28,000 million

Question 32

__________ is the first state to begin a court room battle with national health insurance.

A) California
B) NewYork
C) Pennsylvania
D) Virginia

Question 33

The national health insurance plan __________ discrimination against
Americans with pre-existing conditions.

A) promotes
B) allows
C) prohibits
D) permits

Question 34

The national health insurance plan includes provisions to __________.

A) encourage insurance companies to impose pre-existing condition exclusions.
B) require the need for some insurance companies to require prior approval prior to the patient seeking emergency care at a hospital outside the plan's network.
C) promote discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions.
D) ban insurers from setting lifetime limits on the insured's coverage and restrict their use of annual limits on coverage.

Question 35

__________ a plan of care whereby a patient pays an annual retainer fee in exchange for immediate access to a physician for health care.

A) Emergency medicine
B) Comprehensive medicine
C) Boutique medicine
D) Outpatient medicine