Part 1: Health Care Hall of Fame Museum Proposal

|Description |Analysis (How does the development affect the current U.S. health care system?) |
|1. 1900s, Surgery is now common |In the 1900s, surgery became more common. The most common surgeries |To prevent more mistakes being make during surgery, medical teams works together |
| |performed were removing tumors, infected tonsils, appendectomies, and |to strategize ways to ensure safety during and after surgeries. With years of |
| |gynecological operations. There was still the concern from the patients |strategizing, and thinking of different methods to ensure the safety of the |
| |receiving surgery, due to the fact that this was still a newer service |patients before and after surgeries, the health care team have come up with |
| |available for people who need the procedure. There was the fear of |different methods and techniques they use to make sure all equipment is accounted |
| |equipment being left inside the patient, and even death. There was once |for. To make patients feel more comfortable, more medical employees became |
| |goal for the doctors and surgeons, to have a three way relationship with |involved such as nurses. They have continued to advance in the surgical field to |
| |them and the patient. So being as there is some surgery available for the |find the best and safest ways possible to perform surgeries and through the years,|
| |people, the people had to trust the doctors. |more and more surgeries have been made possible. |
|2.1910s, American hospitals start|Before 1910, there was little to nothing physicians could do to treat |With new discoveries being discovered, more medications were being developing and |
|to value cleanliness, and use |illnesses. It was not until 1910 that the first drug treatment to destroy |increasing the likelihood of people surviving diseases that were going around. |
|medication for the relief of |a disease, and not harm a patient would be discovered. Cleanliness was put|More vaccines for children were being made to keep children healthy for longer |
|pain. |into action, and it was soon found out that sterilization and hygiene |periods of time. With the realization that keeping rooms, equipment, and |
| |played a big role in keeping patients alive. During the Civil war, the |everything in the hospital clean and sterilized, cleaners were made to ensure that|
| |injured would enter hospitals and cleanliness was not practiced within the |infections due to uncleanliness would not occur. |
| |facility. This lead to the soldiers contracting other diseases that would,| |
| |at times, lead to their deaths. | |
|3. 1930s, The Depression changes |In the 1930s, the local and state governments as well as private charities |Today Americans do not have to worry about income if they have a disability, or |
|priorities, with greater emphasis|were overwhelmed by needy families that needed food, clothing, and shelter.|they retire. With the social security benefits and “old age” benefits provided by|
|on unemployed insurance and “old |When the Great Depression hit, about 18 million elderly, disabled, and |the government, people can take security in knowing that most of their expenses |
|age” benefits. |single mothers started to struggle. “Desperate times began to put into |will be paid for. Now that the government has taken action, there are many ways |
| |question the old American notion that if a man worked hard enough, he could|for the elderly and disabled to get benefits if needed. |
| |always take care of himself and his family.” (crf-usa) Government and | |
| |private retirement pensions started up in the United States and welfare was| |
| |started to aid poor elderly people without a source of income. President | |
| |Roosevelt declared that it was time for the government to take more action | |
| |and help out the struggling people. He proposed the old-age insurance | |
| |programs and later signed the Social Security Act. | |
|4. 1950s, Many more medications |A variety of medications comes into use to treat infections, glaucoma, and |Today, hundreds of medications have been made for most symptoms and illnesses. |
|are available, as well as the |arthritis. Also, new vaccines for children become available that prevent |There are many over the counter medications, along with prescription medications |
|first organ transplant is |childhood diseases such as polio. The first successful organ transplant is|that help with pain, sickness, and chronic diseases. Also, there are many organs |
|performed. |performed in 1954. The Herrick twins were the first participants in the |that can be transplanted without the high fear of death. New techniques and |
| |successful kidney transplant. Before this success, transplants were only |methods have been discovered and practiced to ensure patient safety during these |
| |tried when the other alternative was death. Richard was dying of kidney |types of procedures. |
| |disease, and Ronald donated one of his kidneys, it was successfully | |
| |transplanted into Richard because they were identical twins. The kidney | |
| |did not appear foreign to Richard’s body so it was not rejected. Along | |
| |with the first transplant, ethical issues surfaced. This new procedure | |
| |bothers doctors because to cure one patient, they had to harm another | |
| |healthy person. As medications became available, doctors in Boston | |
| |discovered that certain drugs could suppress the immune system and trick | |
| |the body into not rejecting new parts. | |
|5. 1960s, president Lyndon signs |President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Medicare and Medicaid into law in 1965. |With the Medicare and Medicaid signed into law, Americans can get health insurance|
|Medicare and Medicaid into law. |With these insurances signed into law, people with disabilities and seniors|with little to no cost. People are able to receive treatment and check-ups |
| |can have Medicare and be covered. Low-income parents, children, and people|without having to worry about paying a giant fee. With this, people with |
| |with disabilities can have coverage through Medicaid. Despite determined |disabilities can receive coverage no matter what their disability is and can |
| |resistance by organized medicine and some congressional allies, the |receive the proper health care needed. |
| |Medicare bill moved forward to be passed. Johnson enrolled Truman as the | |
| |first Medicare beneficiary and presented him with the nation’s first | |
| |Medicare card. | |

Part 2

How does everything connect? Write up a comprehensive overview of how these events evolved into each other.

These five major events in health care over the years have evolved to make health care what it is today. The impact of the use of surgery becoming more common in the 1900s has led to great advances in what we know of surgery today. With the use of cleanliness, patients do not need to be afraid of infections they can contract due to the lack of sterilization of equipment. In 1910, the realization of how important it is to stay clean was taken into effect, lowering the deaths of patients in hospitals. When the use of medication was taken into action, patients could be relieved of their pain due to surgeries, or other pain they had due to whatever reasons. When the 1950s came around, a variety of medications were discovered and came into use to treat chronic illnesses such as glaucoma, arthritis, and infections. Vaccines were starting to be made to help protect the children from contracting life threatening diseases. This is also when the first successful organ transplant took place, and doctors realized that with advancement in medicines, they could transplant other organs. Moving back in time to the 1930s, the Depression changed views and the government was told to take more action for people that were struggling to provide for themselves and their families. The “old age” benefits was put into place so the elderly would not have to struggle to survive from day to day. This lead to the signing of the Social Security Act from President Roosevelt. Finally, in the 1960s, Lyndon signed Medicare and Medicaid into law so that low-income families, disabled people, and the elderly could have coverage to get the necessary health care they needed with little to no cost. With insurance becoming available to people to receive health care, they can now get treatment that they need. This goes along with the advancement in surgeries, and transplants. They are covered to receive quality care, and know they will be worked on with sterilized equipment without the fear of getting infections. New medications have been studied and put into effect to help reduce the pain associated with illness, surgeries, and transplants, to help and guide a speedy recovery. Almost anyone can reap the benefits of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social security if they are eligible. Even children are covered now so that they can get their yearly vaccinations and prevent contracting deadly diseases that are out there, and so they can get their routine check-ups to ensure they are developing correctly.

References

Brock, Claire. (July 2013). Risk, Responsibility and Surgery in the 1890s and Early 1900s. (317-337).

http://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/history.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dm54ki.html

http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria14_3.html#welfare