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Exploring the Evolution of Hospitals

This quiz explores the evolution and history of hospitals, their architecture, and the role of healthcare in society. It features questions on significant developments in the healthcare system, historical hospitals, and the terminology as it relates to patient care.

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1 The adoption of ________ as the state religion of the Roman Empire drove an expansion of the provision of care.

2 What does the following picture show?  Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in the East of England The UK has a publicly funded health care system called the National Health Service   A teaching hospital in Canada   The National Health Service Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in the UK, showing the utilitarian architecture of many modern hospitals

3 Similarly, modern-day hospitals are largely staffed by professional physicians, surgeons, and ________, whereas in history, this work usually was performed by the founding religious orders or by volunteers.

4 These may then be backed up by more specialist units such as ________ or coronary care unit, intensive care unit, neurology, cancer center, and obstetrics and gynecology.

5 A hospital is an institution for ________ providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often, but not always providing for longer-term patient stays.

6 What does the following picture show?  A physician visiting the sick in a hospital, German engraving from 1682   The National Health Service Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in the UK, showing the utilitarian architecture of many modern hospitals   Hospicio Cabañas was the largest hospital in colonial America, in Guadalajara, Mexico   A physician visiting the sick in a hospital, German engraving from 1682

7 The name comes from Latin hospes (host), which also is the root for the English words hotel, hostel, and ________.

8 What does the following picture show?  A teaching hospital in Canada   View of the Askleipion of Kos, the best preserved instance of an Asklepieion.   The church at Les Invalides in France showing the often close connection between historical hospitals and churches   Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in the East of England The UK has a publicly funded health care system called the National Health Service

9 [18][17] The first psychiatric hospital was built in ________ in 705.

10 The first teaching hospital where students were authorized to practice methodically on patients under the supervision of physicians as part of their education, was the Academy of Gundishapur in the ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • many crew members began to cry while filming hospital scenes for the Swedish film Glowing Stars, because they thought the scenes were emotional.
  • at the time, the 1947 Sydney hailstorm, which hospitalised at least 350 people, was the most severe storm to strike the city since records began in 1792.
  • the Royal Columbian Hospital, the oldest hospital in British Columbia, was built in 1862 during a Gold Rush for $3,396 by the Corps of Royal Engineers and a chain gang.
  • the four state-owned Regional Health Authorities run all the public hospitals in Norway.
  • the tiny municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec was set up in 1722 to protect its only occupant, a hospital, from taxes.
  • after capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois, surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America.
  • St Nicholas Hospital, St Andrews, was originally a leper hospital.
  • madame Anna Wilson, the "Queen of the Underworld" in early Omaha, Nebraska, bequeathed her 25-room brothel mansion to the city to use as an emergency hospital upon her death.
  • Jerusalem's Street of the Prophets was originally called "Street of the Hospitals" and "Street of the Consuls".
  • Hamilton Palace in Scotland was lent for use as a naval hospital during World War I, by Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital, cofounded by Benjamin Franklin, was the first hospital in the United States.
  • St. Cyril's Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine was closed by the Tsarist Government and its living quarters were converted into a hospital and later an insane asylum, which lasted until the mid-late 20th century.
  • Emperor Frederick II exempted the hospitaller Order of Saint James of Altopascio from taxes.
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