HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Patient Participation, Consumerism, Free Market
6 Sep 2017
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Everyone falls into one of these roles . Patients who must submit to md"s authority. Clients who hire md (realize their expertise) Consumers who work in partnership with md. Consumer = someone who purchases good or service. No longer waiting on physician for advice, say what you want and ask how they can deliver that. Partnership meeting of two equal parties. Empowered (physician expert on medicine, you an expect on own life and experiences) First cause of shift to consumerism - attack of authorities. 1960"s onwards - tendency to question traditional authority, professional expertise . Era where authority comes under attack (civil rights movement, mental health patients, females, blacks, etc. ) Mass protests against government, police, university admin, etc. Feminist critiques male control of bodies, reproduction, scienti c notions of female inferiority. Majority of physicians men, would deny single access to abortion or birth control. Framed as women not knowing what was good for them.
