University of Central Florida

SYO 4400

CH 9 True False Questions

1)Talcott Parsons’s concept of the sick role provides some basic guidelines for understanding doctor–patient interaction.

 

                                                               

 

2. Parsons explains that the relationship between a physician and patient is one that is oriented toward the patient helping himself/herself deal effectively with a health problem.

 

 

 

3. When people visit doctors for treatment and medical advice, doctors rarely take some type of action to satisfy the patient’s expectations.

 

 

 

4. Szasz and Hollender focused on the manner in which patients try to modify treatment prescribed by a physician.

 

 

 

5. Better educated and younger adults tend to be more skeptical of physician motives in providing treatment.

 

                                                               

 

6. When a patient is extremely ill or there is an emergency, doctors still cannot make life- saving decisions about patients without consulting them.

 

 

 

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

 

                                                               

 

8. Well educated persons are the most likely to have their questions treated impersonally.

 

 

 

9. Doctors from upper-middle-class backgrounds tended to communicate less information to their patients generally than doctors with lower-middle- or working-class origins.

 

 

10. 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.

 

                                                               

 

11. One example of male physician misperceptions about female patients is a tendency to misdiagnose heart attacks as anxiety problems.

 

                                                               

 

12. Some patients may perceive women physicians as less of an authority figure than male physicians.

 

                                                               

 

13. Surprisingly, the number of women physicians is decreasing.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

                                                               

 

16. Modern-day medical practice is provided within the context of middle-class norms.

 

                                                               

 

17. Communication is the key for avoiding noncompliance.

 

                                                               

 

18. The belief among laypersons that the “doctor knows best” is still very accepted.

 

 

 

19. The Internet has become a major source of medical information for many lay people.