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Home Health Care is beginning to trend. Nurses now provide health care in the homes of their patients. Another trend that saves the patients money.

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Energy Conservation!!! People now started to monitor the use of energy, which greatly controlled the costs of health care.

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Outpatient services begin. Patients are now able to receive care without being admitted to a hospital. This saves them lots of money

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Congress makes Diagnostic related groups (DRGs). They did this as an effort to control the cost for insurance plans

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FDA approved Da Vinci: the first robotic surgical system. It allowed for smaller surgical incisions, less pain, and faster recovery

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Completion of the Human Genome Project. This provided the basis for much of the current research on genetics

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Benjamin Carson was born. He is skilled and accomplished neurosurgeon to exist, considering he has the ability to separate conjoined twins.

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Watson and Crick discovered the double-helix nature of DNA and how it carries genetic information. It was a major development to the understanding of the human body

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The first ever open heart surgery was performed. This surgery shaped and progressed to the heart surgeries that are performed today.

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Florence Nightingale, the Founder of Modern Nursing, was born. Her impact was tremendous, considering that she established sanitary nursing care for injured soldiers in years to come.

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René Laennec invented the stethoscope. This allowed physicians to listen to internal body sounds for the first time. Major innovation.

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James Brundell performs the first successful blood transfusion. This was a major step forward in the history of Health Care and Medicine

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Edward Jenner created the vaccine to small pox. This vaccine decreased the death rates tremendously

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William Harvey described the circulation of blood. It increased the knowledge of the human body greatly

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope. Due to this invention, people were now able to see and locate the germs that caused infectious diseases

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Ambroise Pare (known as the Father of Modern Surgery) was born. His birth was significant because he established the use of ligatures to bind arteries & stop bleeding. It was a major step forward.

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Development of printing press began; this allowed for knowledge about health care to be spread to others.

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Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci used dissection to draw the human body more realistically. It allowed a better understanding of anatomy and physiology.

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Hippocrates founded a medical school during his time. His oath is still the basis of medical practice today

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Herbs and Plants were beginning to be used as medicine; certain herbs are still used today