Introduction to Health Care

The NIH is a federal agency that provides information on health and wellness, diseases and conditions, clinical trials, and more.

The CDC is the site to visit when you need health-related statistics. It also has information about health and safety at home and in the workplace, diseases and conditions, and emergency preparedness.

The FDA is the agency that approves new medications and ensures food safety. They also have information about medical devices, vaccines, radiation, and tobacco.

The Florida Department of Health has information for healthcare professionals on licensing and regulations, records and laws, data and statistics, disease, injuries and conditions, emergency preparedness, and more.

National Patient Safety Goals for ambulatory care, behavioral health care, critical access hospital, hospital, home care, lab services, long term care, nursing care center, and office-based surgery.

Here are the three major questions you need to ask when picking a plan. From Consumer Reports.

The AMA Journal of Ethics is the American Medical Association's MEDLINE-indexed ethics publication. The journal is advertisement-free and open-access. We strongly believe that ethics education for physicians and physicians-to-be is in the public's interest and should be made available without charge. Founded in 1999, the AMA Journal of Ethics explores the ethical issues and challenges that students, residents, and other physicians are likely to confront in their training and daily practice. This journal is a valuable teaching resource for medical educators at all levels. Therefore, each monthly issue contains original articles and commentary on a given theme-e.g., access to care; quality-of-life considerations in clinical decision making, public roles of physicians, ethical issues in a given medical specialty, new medical technologies, conflict of values in the clinic, and so on.