SOC-S 101 Lecture 12: 3 patient types
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Expected to do what doctor says & behave politely. No one knows how chronic illness is changing except for patient. If let person decide how much/when going to take - take less & get bette faster. Medical trumps social - when uncertainty is more, social factors play bigger role. Therapeutic role expectations -> "moral evaluation" -> label -> bad -> treatment. Emergency = must be treated within 24 hours. Social role expectations -> clean, dirty, politeness, smell of alcohol/marijuana. Took pic of "dumpy looking" middle age woman and sent out to members of ameri psychiatric ass. Same story (vignette) - next picture, stretched her (overweight) - th again (obese) F - likely to see that anyone can be helped (with this particular cas doesn"t matter if obese, overweight, or normal. T - assigned more psychological problems to more heavy looking woman. Does gender of health clinician differ between male and female.
