hca 220
WEEK 1
DQ 1
The five skills of medical communication are important for health care administration because they help let communicating with other healthcare professionals while you're working. The five language skills are reading, listening, thinking, analyzing, and understanding, writing (typing) and spelling, and speaking and pronouncing. There are many things I will be trying out to master these five skills of medical communication. I will try my hardest to read the material over and over until I remember what I am reading. If I do this, I may remember things that will be important for me to know once I get a career in the healthcare field. I will complete all the assignments on time, and reread them before posting to make sure it is what I want to turn in. I will also open the assignment after it's posted to make sure that it is the right assignment. I have had a couple problems with that in previous classes and it has become almost like a habit.
DQ 2
Hello All.
Prefix is a word part that is the beginning of the word. A prefix is an optional word part and not every word has a prefix. These words end in a hyphen.
Some examples of a prefix are endo- meaning endotracheal, within the trachea. Intra- meaning intravenous, or an IV.
Combining form is a combining form is a word part that is the foundation of a word, a combing form gives the word its main medical meaning, a combining form has a root, a forward slash, a combing vowel, and a final hyphen.
An example of this would be Cardi/o with logy, making cardiology. Another would be Lapar/o with scopy meaning laparoscopy.
Suffix is the end part of the word, modifies or clarifies the medical meaning of the combining form. A suffix is a single letter or group of letters that begins with a hyphen.
Some examples of a suffix are -ac and -al, Cardi-AC and Peritone-AL.

WEEK 3
DQ 1
It is very important for someone that is in the healthcare field to be able to understand medical terminology. I think that if you didn't understand medical terminology you wouldn't be able to communicate properly with the doctors that you come in contact with. You would also have a hard time explaining to the patient questions that they have about the doctor’s orders. I know I have asked the nurses plenty of times what exactly did the doctor mean by what he said? Being able to help explain to the patients that have questions about their doctors order would make the patient feel more secure with their visit. If medical terminology was used incorrectly you wouldn't feel like you were giving your best work. If you was misunderstanding the other employees and had to ask many questions about things you should already know you could get fired. I would think that know and being able to use medical terminology would be a big thing in the hiring process for health care administration jobs!
DQ 2
Scenario 2
Referring Patient to a Gastroenterologist
Dated March 2 2012

Mr. John Doe has been seen by our practice since July 2003 for peptic ulcer disease. For the past year and a half, he has had extreme fatigue, weight loss, nausea and vomiting, cough, and joint and hip pain, all of which have interfered with every aspect of his life. This is not due to his peptic ulcer disease. He will have persistent nausea and vomiting for months at a time. His hemoglobin fluctuates between high and normal. He had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy on 8-30-2004 which did not significantly improve his symptoms. Periportal adenopathy was noted on a CT scan dated 9/2003. His gastric emptying scan was normal. The upper endoscopy performed on 12/2004 revealed gastritis but this does not explain his symptoms. His last colonoscopy dated 3/2004 revealed normal random biopsies. This patient is positive for recurrent mono. Please see summary of notes and labs faxed. His primary care provider is Dr. Common. Please evaluate this patient from an infectious disease standpoint. His severe symptoms to this date are unexplained.

Sincerely,
Dr.Common