Reflections Of The Past Ch1 Exam Questions

Chapter 1 Reflections of the Past

Multiple Choice

Chapter 1: Hospitals Through the Ages

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

a. Greek

b. Roman

c. Hindu

d. Egyptian

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

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

4. The writings of Hippocrates were preserved by __________.

a. Dutch merchants

b. Van Leeuwenhook

c. Monks

d. barber surgeons

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

a. Van Leeuwenhook

b. Fenwick

c. Lister

d. Pasteur

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

7. __________ is often referred to as the first hospital administrator.

a. Bedford Fenwick

b. W. G. Wylie

c. Florence Nightingale

d. John Hopkins

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

a. Boston

b. Philadelphia

c. Manhattan

d, Richmond

9. __________ is credited with the discovery of the X-ray

a. Halstead

b. Whipple

c. McCollum

d. Roentgen

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

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

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

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

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

a. Egypt

b. Greece

c. Spain

d. Greenland

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

a. Bergmann

b. Konrad

c. McCollum

d. Halstead

16. __________ produced experimental rickets.

a. Wasserman

b. Fenwick

c. Virchow

d. Finlay

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

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

a. Lister

b. Halstead

c. Pasteur

d. Semmelweis

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

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

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

a. John Jones

b. Thomas Bond

c. Thomas Jefferson

d. William Penn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

a. California

b. NewYork

c. Pennsylvania

d. Virginia

33. The national health insurance plan __________ discrimination against

Americans with pre-existing conditions.

a. promotes

b. allows

c. prohibits

d. permits

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.

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