Describe how culture can make a difference in a process as apparently objective as neurological diagnosis
What will be an ideal response?
When physicians make diagnoses, they call upon their own experience to interpret the behaviors of patients. If a person behaviors in a way different than the physician expects, it could lead to a diagnosis based on a mismatch between behavior and expectation, not on underlying physical or psychological problems. In the case of the patient who suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning (described in Controversy Box 1), the initial physician made inappropriate assumptions about what the patient knew, so when the patient didn't conform to expectations, the doctor erred in his diagnosis.
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House elections of the 1960s and 1970s
A) were considerably more expensive than today. B) were slightly more expensive than today. C) were considerably less expensive than today. D) cost about the same as today. E) were entirely publicly funded.
The costs of Medicare are expected to rise over the next two decades as:
A. population growth outpaces the growth in the job market. B. Obama's stimulus packages expire. C. population growth outpaces gross domestic product growth. D. people are brought into the health-care system under Obamacare. E. millions of baby boomers retire.