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Question 31

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Dissatisfaction with the doctor-patient relationship is heavily dependent on one's:

A) Gender.
B) Culture.
C) Race.
D) Social class.
E) None of the above.

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Question 32

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Expanding reliance on new technologies has promoted a shift away from ____________, with its focus on the patient's oral account of his or her medical history.

A) Folk medicine.
B) Biographical medicine.
C) Hereditary medicine.
D) Verbal medicine.
E) None of the above.

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Question 33

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Communication is the key for avoiding noncompliance.

Zola found that Italian patients tended to understate their symptoms, while Irish patients tended to overstate them.

Talcott Parsons's concept of the sick role provides some basic guidelines for understanding doctor-patient interaction.

A major barrier to effective communication lies in the differences between physicians and their patients.

Describe doctor-patient relations. Are they changing?

_________________ is the notion that, since the work of the physician is for the good of the patient, physicians tend to impute illness to their patients rather than to deny it and risk overlooking or missing it.

A major barrier to effective communication lies in the differences between physicians and their patients with respect to:

Treatments normally available only in hospitals, like chemotherapy, may be reconfigured into pills and taken at home now.

The lack of male sensitivity to women patients was a major factor in the formation of the women's health movement to combat sexual discrimination in medicine.

The belief among laypersons that the "doctor knows best" is still very accepted.

Some male doctors feel reduced in status by being referred to as health care "providers" instead of physicians.