TEST CH1 INTRO TO HEALTHSCIENCE

A promise made by physicians to practice medicine honestly is known as the

• Hippocratic Oath

• bubonic plague

• Psychoanalysis

• Dr's oath

The __________ plague, also known as the Black Plague, caused buboes, swollen and pianful lymph nodes throughout the body.

• Septicemic

• Pneumonic

• bacterium

• bubonic

Pain management used during surgery is known as ____________.

• psychoanalysis

• anesthesia

• hospice

• caduceus

__________ is a federal health insurance program for senior citizens and disabled individuals.

• medicare

• medicaid

• tricare

• private insurance

Medical arts from this culture date back 40,000 years, as traditions were passed down orally from healer to healer.

• Greeks

• Egyptians

• Chinese

• Native Americans

The _________ were the first to study the pulse as a means of diagnosis.

• Greeks

• Egyptians

• Chinese

• Romans

Surgical needles and scalpels were invented by the _________.

• Greeks

• Egyptians

• Chinese

• Romans

The ________ were the first to discover that unsanitary water led to disease.

• Greeks

• Egyptians

• Chinese

• Romans

The Greeks physician _________ is often called the father of western medicine.

• Galen

• Hermes

• Hippocrates

• Aesculapius

Diphtheria and tuberculosis are examples of _______.

• epidemics

• antibiotics

• vaccinations

• quarantines