SOC 343 Final Exam

One out of every _______ countries in the United States does not have a single doctor.

20

One out of every_______counties in the United States does not have a single doctor.

20

The most prominent group in American society advocating a preference for religious healing is the:

A: Christian Science Church

The _______ model applies when the patient is seriously ill or being treated on an emergency basis in a state or relative helplessness due to a severe injury or lack of consciousness.

A: activity passitivity

Millman contended that a "gentlemen's agreement" existed among the hospital physicians. What did this agreement allow for?

A: to overlook each other's mistakes

People use CAM techniques because they are:

All of the above

People with middle and upper socioeconomic status tend to be more _____and active participants in the physician-patient encounter.

B. Consumer oriented

What is a gatekeeper?

B: Primary car physicians who screens patients before referring them to expensive procedures or specialists

What is medicalization?

B: occurs when previously non-medical problems are defined and treated as medical problems usually in the terms of illness or disorders

Who are the key sources of medication information for the general public?

C: Pharmacists

The ____approach to healing also involves manipulation of bones in the spinal column.

Chiropractic Appraoch

Osteopaths earn what degree?

D.O.: Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine

Who was one of the leading proponents of labeling theory?

D: Howard Becker

About 75% of licensed registered and practical nurses in the Unites States work in:

D: nursing homes and hospitals

At the beginning of the twenty-first century we are witnessing that the dominance of the medical profession is:

Declining

The central rule of the doctor-nurse game is to avoid:

E: None of the above

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

E: all of the above Status, education, professional training and authority

Doctor-patient relationships in the U.S. have seriously ____ in recent years.

Eroded

True or False: One aspect of medical training that appears in several studies of medical students is the finding that the experience tends to promote emotional attachment to patients.

False

True or False: Parson's concept of the sick role applies to chronic illnesses as well as to acute illnesses.

False

True or False: The AMA supported the implementation of Medicare.

False

True or False: The patient-physician relationship is not intended by society to be therapeutic in nature.

False

True or False: The primary reason given by many medical students for choosing a career in medicine has been that of wanting "to have a higher income"

False

The ____ was founded in Philadelphia n 1847.

First American Medical Association

Those who use faith and folk healers, typically come from a(an) _____background.

Lower class

What is one of the earliest forms of care available to women?

Midwifery

_________ typically have a bachelor's degree, experience in health care as a nurse or paramedic, and become qualified after completing a training program of approximately 26 months.

PA: Physician Assistant

What is NOT an important factor in establishing prestige within the medical profession?

Race of the practioner

Which theorist(s) argue that physician-patient interaction falls into one or three possible models?

Szasz and Hollender

Which theorist(s) takes the position that the seriousness of the patient's symptoms is the determining factor of doctor-patient interaction?

Szasz and Hollender

True or False: Better educated and younger adults tend to be more skeptical of physician motives in providing treatment

True

True or False: Sociologists have typically viewed sickness as a form of deviant behavior.

True

Who unveiled a general concept of disease based on cellular pathology.

Virchow

Few ____ go to folk healers.

Whites

What is Parson's concept of the sick role seems to typically apply only to what type of diseases?

acute diseases

Currently, _____may hold doctorates n their field.

all of the above

The "golden age" of doctoring was marked by:

all of the above

What is NOT a contributor to the increase in health care expenditures?

all of the above

What is the role of a managed care organization?

all of the above

The decline in the status and autonomy of physicians is largely due to greater_____.

all of the above Government regulation, corporation in the health care market and changes in the physician and patient relationship;

True or False: Female physicians are more likely to play the doctor-nurse game with both male and female nurses.

false

This method of payment is consistent with the principle of the open market, in which the consumers of health care, like the consumers of other products are free to choose which health care providers offer the best services at prices they can afford.

fee for service

What attracted corporations to health care delivery is the potential for:

financial profit

What is a traditionally female dominated industry?

general practice

"A state or condition of suffering as the result of a disease or sickness" defines what?

illness

What is the sick role?

middle class orientation

Nightingale incorporated the best attribute of the _____ and the _____ into her ideal nurse.

mother and house keeper

People with chronic health problems requiring long-term hospitalization tend to be sent to ________institutions.

public

The medical profession in the United States has had a consistent record of ____to social legislation.

resistance

How did Parsons view the function of medicine?

social control

True or False: Nursing represents the largest single group of health workers in the United States.

true