Question

As a medical assistant working in the emergency department of a large hospital, you are familiar with a middle-aged mother who regularly brings her 10-year-old son in for treatment of a severe asthma attack. The physicians on duty in the ER treat the young patient, resolving his emergency, but everyone knows he will be back within the next one to two weeks suffering another severe attack.

1.Why is the boy's condition treated in the emergency room where you work and not in a physician's office?

2.What is lacking in the boy's medical treatment that necessitates repeated visits to the ER?

3.Ideally, how should the boy's condition be treated?

4.In terms of better access to ongoing health care for the parents of the boy in the case study, which of the following does the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (often referred to as ACA) seek to provide?

Multiple Choice

• Access through health insurance

• More drugs to treat asthma

• More hospital emergency rooms

• More physicians in medical specialties

• 5.

  Which of the following adds significantly to the cost of health care in the United States?

  Multiple Choice

• Too few physicians

• Unhealthy lifestyles

• Medical specialists

• Too many hospitals

• 6.

• A trend for health care in the United States is for each patient to receive:

  Multiple Choice

• A medical care savings account

• Government-subsidized health insurance

• A list of physicians who charge the least for services

• Personalized health care

• A list of physicians who charge the least for services

• Personalized health care

Answer 1

1. Based on given information boy was asthmatic need oxygen supply ,its an emergency condition ,so this condition cont able to treat in physician office.

2. Irregular treatment and sever asthmatic condition necisitated for continues visit for emergency department.

3.Providing oxygen administration and regular medication for asthma will help ideally.

4.According to affordable care act access through insurance company will help for boy to get treatment.

5.Availability of medical specialist increase the cost of care.

6. A list of physician providing care for low cost is the trend (3).