Health care delivery – Flashcards
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a job description for a physician would be to:
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A and C
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a doctor of osteopathic medicine believes in:
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preventive and holistic medicine
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you have decided to go to medical school. will you become a primary care physician or will you become a specialist? what are the major medical care distinctions between these two majors?
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PCP: first contact/portal to the HCS, focuses on the person as a whole, health promotion/disease prevention,counseling, follow up, acute and chronic illnesses.
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in the US we have an imbalance of specialty care and primary care. explain this phenomenon.
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demographics-inner city to suburbs, development of medical technology, higher reimbursement for specialists, more predictable work hours, higher prestige among colleagues, geographic maldistribution, aggregate physician over supply
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a specialist must:
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A and B
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the health care subdivision of the US economy continues to grow because:
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both A and B
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studies have shown that NPP services can:
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both A and B
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true or false? most MD's are specialists and most DO's are generalists.
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true
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true or false? NPP practice in many areas in which physicians practice; however NPP's do not have a medical degree.
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true
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which answer does not describe a negative consequence of specialty maldistribution?
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more predictable hours and higher prestige for specialists
