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Physicians who specialize in bariatrics treat which patient population?

Which speciality is dedicated to the treatment of obese patients?

Which specialty treats a pregnant female from prenatal care through labor, delivery, and the postpartum period?

An advanced degree is required for what career title level?

When do physicians usually take their licensing examinations?

What is the name of the official medical licensing exam in the United States?

Along with medical doctors, what other healthcare providers are licensed physicians?

An osteopath is primarily concerned emphasizes the relationship between the organs of the body and which system(s)?

What type of healthcare provider emphasizes the relationship between the musculoskeletal systems and the organs of the body?

What is awarded in malpractice lawsuits?

Who are accountable under the law for maintaining a workplace that is free of sexual harassment?

When a plantiff proves that the defendant's act directly caused injury, what is proven?

Disturbing the peace is what kind of offense?

Practicing medicine without a license is what type of violation?

What kind of court case requires that there be damage or injury to the patient that was caused by the physician or the physicians employee?

Contract law concerns what type of promises and agreements between two or mote persons?

Leaving a message regarding test results is considered?

In what type of filing system does a patient continue to have his or her records associated with the same number that was assigned the first time they were seen or admitted to the hospital?

In what type of filing system does a patient receive a different medical record number for each hospital visit?

What does the "A" in the acronym SOAP mean?

What filing method assigns a tertiary, secondary, and primary section to each file?

What part of the Probelm Oriented Medical Record consists of the physical exam, patient history, and the results of baseline laboratory or diagnostic procedures?

What type of file is used to remind the medical assistant of an event or action that will take place at a future date?

What type of medical record has four sections for a physician's use to easily track a patient's progress?

Who owns the medical record?

Patients have what legal right with respect to access their medical records?

Dietary intake of what, with suffiecient amounts, is necessary to promote health?

What characteristic of the immune system of the young makes them more susceptible to infection and disease?

Microorgansims are also called what?

What type of bacteria does not require oxygen to live?

During what process do phagocytes engulf, digest, and destroy pathogens?

What is the medical term for the state of being free from germs, infection, and any form of microbial life?

What have the ability to neutralize antigens?

What type of immunity develops when antibodies are artifically introduced into the body and provide temporary immunity?

Microorganisms that are normall found on the skin and in the urinary, gastrointestinal, and respiratory tracts are knwon as what?

What type of acid in the gastrointestinal tract contributes to bactericidal actions?

What measurements can provide an indication of an individual's general health?

When measuring someone's height, the L-shaped arm is raised and lowered until it rests on top of what?

What does the tympanic membrane thermometer detect in the ear canal and near the eardrum?

In what part of the body does the tympanic membrane thermometer measure temperature?

What time of day is body temperature the lowest?

What time of day is body temperature the highest?

Measureable data, such as blood work, temperature, vital signs, is what kind of information?

What type of temperature does a patient have when the body temperature alternates between fever and normal or subnormal?

What type of fever does apatient have when the body tempertaure fluctuates a small bit but always remains above normal?

What word means the number of pulse beats per minute?

What term refers to the strength of the pulse?

A pulse rate above 100 bpm is what?

A pulse rate below 60 bpm is what?

How many common pulse sites are located in the arm?

How many common pulse sites are there in the body?

One exhalation and one inspiration are referred to as what cycle?

What is taken into the lungs during the act of inspiration?

When is blood pressure typically lowest?

What is it called when blood pressure is measured when the patient is in an erect position?

119/79 is considered what type of blood pressure?

120/80 to 139/89 is considered what type of blood pressure?

A dekagram is how many units?

A hectogram is how many units?

What rule states that it is never appropriate to include zero after a whole number?

The leading zero rule must be followed when writing a decimal number less than what?

When using the formula method for calculating dosage, the available strength is divided by what?

When using the formula method for calculating dosage, the available amount is divided by what?

If a physician orders a patient to receive 400 mg of a medication, and the available vial contains 800mg/mL, how many mL of medication are required?

If a physician orders a patient to receive 50 mg of a medication that has an available strength of 25mg/mL, haw many mL of the medication are required?

What specially licensed professional, other than a physician, is permitted to write prescription?

What type of nurse is permitted to write prescriptions?

What schedule of controlled substances has the most lax (relaxed) regulations?

What schedule of controlled substances is not prescribed in the US?

What method of administration involves holding the medication under the tongue?

What method of administration makes use of suppositories?

In what method of administration does a patient take the medication by mouth and swallow it?

In what method of administration is the medication applied directly on the skin in ointment, cream, or lotion form?

In pharmacology, how is "3 times a day" abbreviated?

In pharmacology, what is the abbreviation for "subcutaneous"?

What kind of patient requires lower doses of medication?

What kind of decline in elderly patients can necessitate lower dosages of medication?

What kind of medicine can complement traditional medicine?

In the eastern and southeastern areas of which continent do many cultures practice a holistic approach to medicine?