内科internal medicine外科surgery骨科orthopedics妇产科obstetrics and gynecology中医科chinese traditional medicine 麻醉科anesthesiology眼科ophthalmology耳鼻喉科 E.N.T针灸理疗科acupuncture and physical therapy 急诊科emergency room重症监护中心ICU皮肤性病科dermatology and venereology 呼吸respiration神经neurology血液肿瘤hematology and oncology肾病nephrology心血管cardiovascular disease消化digestion新生儿科newborns感染科infectious疼痛门诊pain clinic妇科gynecology产科obstetrics生殖医学中心assistant reproduction center 泌尿genito-urinary心胸cardiac and thoracic普外general surgery病理科pathology影像科radiology超声科ultrasonograpthy division 检验科laboratory division输血科blood transfusion unit手术室operation room药剂科pharmacy division营养科nutrition division供应科supply room血透室hemodialysis division内镜中心endoscopy center特检科special examination division 实习生intern院办president’s office医务科medical affairs division感染管理科infectious management division 护理部nursing division门诊部out-patient division科教部scientific research division组织人事科personnel division保卫科security division财务科finance division临床工程科facilities division计算机中心computer center总务科general affairs division基建科construction division膳食科food division综合采购部purchasing division社区医疗服务部community medical service division 预防保健科staff health office门诊out-patient急诊emergency住院手术in-patient operation门诊手术out-patient operation病床周转次数bed turnover rate床位利用率bed utilization rate医疗诊疗数medical records助理医师physician assistant主治医师attending physician主任医师chief physician急诊医师emergency physician家庭医师family physician住院医师house/resident physiciansurgery : The medical department responsible for performing operations on patients. During an operation ,a me-dical problem is corrected with the use of surgicaltools. Two common tools include the scalpel, is asmall knife ,and the forceps, which is a set of tongs .A physician qualified to perform operations is knowas a surgeon.Physician : Another name for a doctor of medicine.A physician Is trained in the pratice of medicine ,the “healingArt.”Medical Department: A division of medical services inthe hospital that offers diagnosisand treatment in one area.Examples of medical departmentsinclude surgery, neurology,andpediatrics. These division mayalso be referred to as clinicaldepartments. Each department isrun by a senior physician knownas the head of the department. Surgery: The medical department responsible for performing operations on patients. During anoperation, a medical problem is corrected withthe use of surgical tools. Two common toolsinclude the scalpel, is a small knife, and theforceps, which is a set of tongs. A physicianqualified to perform operations is known as asurgeon.Exploratory Surgery: Surgery that is performed to helpconfirm a diagnosis. It usually isnot intended to cure the patient. Anesthesia: General or local insensibility to pain induced by certain drugs or gases calledanesthetics. They are usually administeredby a trained anesthesionlogist, who is adoctor, or an anesthetist, who usually is not. Patient Monitoring: The use of electronic devices tokeep constant watch over apatient’s vital signs.Cesarean Section: A method of delivering a child thatinvolves cutting into the uterus. Thename comes from the supposed factthat Julius Caesar was delivered thisway.Rooming-in: A new practice that allows newborn infantsto spend much of their time in theirmothers’ rooms.Pediatrician: A doctor who specializes in the care of children from the time they are born untilthey are teenagers. Most general hospitalhave a separate pediatrics department. General Medicine: A term covering a broad range ofmedical services offered by ahospital. Patients in this departmentare cured by medicine or anotherform of therapy.Internist: A doctor who specializes in general, internalproblems that can be cured by medication. Dermatologist: A specialist in skin problems.Dermatlolgy is the study and treatment ofskin problems.Communicable diseases: Diseases that are infectious orcan spread from one patient toanother. Included in thiscategory are measles, smallpox,poliomyelitis, meningitis,and soon.Paramedical: Related to the medical profession in asupporting or supplementary manner. Aparamedical technician has some trainingin his specialty, but not as much as adoctor. This kind of technician is oftennow called allied health professional. Anesthesiologist: Doctor trained in the administration ofanesthetics, drugs or gases-such asether that produce anesthesia orinsensitivity to pain.Radiologist: Specialist in the use of x rays. These rays are given off by various radioactivesubstances. They are used to photographbones and inner organs. All radiologists arephysicians.Nuclear Medicine: New medical specialty featuring theuse of radioactive isotopes fordiagnostic purposes. The isotope isinjected into skin tissue,thebloodstream, or an organ. Itsmovement is followed by a deviceknown as a scanner.Laboratory: Area in the hospital responsible for analyzing samples of blood, urine, tissue,and so on. These samples are calledspecimens. The lab is run by a pathologist, adoctor who interprets and diagnosesdiseases by examining samples oftissue,blood,and so on.Thelab is staffed bylaboratory technicians.Urinalysis: Laboratory analysis of a urine specimen. Microscope: A device used in laboratory analyses that magnified what is too small for the eye tosee.Centrifuge: Anapparatus that separates substances of different densities by rotating at highspeeds.It is used in a hospital laboratory. Autopsy: examination of a body after death todetermine the cause of death.Thebody is kept in thehospital morgue during the autopsy and until itis removed for burial.Medical Audit: Professional evaluation of the quality ofmedical care offered to patients. Basal Metabolism Rate: The speed is at which a body atrest uses oxygen to consumethe calories in food.Blood Bank: Storage place for bottled human blood to beused in transfusions. The laboratory in ahospital is responsible for this blood. Pharmacy: Area in a hospital where medication is prepared and dispensed by a trainedpharmacist.Prescription: A written order for medication. A physicianwrites the prescription and a pharmacistfills it.Oxygen Therapy: Administration of oxygen-to patientswho are having troubleblethingthrough the use of anoxygen tent or mask.Renal Dialysis: Procedure used by patients who havelost the use of their kidneys. Theirkidney function must be replaced twoor three times a week by a renaldialysis machine.Sterilization: The process of destroying disease-producing organisms, usuallythrough the use of heat. Items that havebeen sterilized are said to by sterile. Obstetrics: A medical term relating to the delivery of babies.aphysicia specializing in this atea ofmedicine is an obitetrician.Operating Room:A special room in a hospital equipped for operations.Gynecology:the science of the female reproductivesystem, A gynecologist cam usuallydeliver babies, as well as theobstetrician.Labor: The series of contractions of the uterus prior tothe birth of an infant.Recovery Room: The room in which a patient recoversfrom an operation of recovers from thedelivery of an infant.Nursery: The place in which newborn babies are cared for after their delivery. Most hospitals haveregular nurseries and premature nurseries forbabies who are born before the end of thenormal nine-month gestation period. Maternity Floor: The part of the hospital where mothersgive birth to babies and are cared foraftefrward. Most women spend from afew days to a week here. This area mayalso be referred to as a ward or a wing.。
