Deck 7: Dying in the American Health-Care System

Question 1

The medical training of most physicians historically seems to be primarily concerned with the patient's physical state rather than social-psychological needs.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Labeling theory focuses on the act or actor rather than on the audience observing.False

Answer 2

False

Question 3

In American society, for the patient the hospital is the preferred place to die.False

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Recent surveys of physicians revealed that they prefer less emphasis on the topic of death and dying in medical schools.

Question 5

Dying in America, is one activity that by its which by its nature, cannot be bureacratized.False

Question 6

The primary reaction to deviance of any type is punishment of some sort.

Question 7

Like the United States, dying in China primarily occurs in an institutional setting.False

Question 8

According to van Eys, in redefining her or his social world, the dying person becomes the servant of the physician-priest in the temple where the dying takes place.False

Question 9

According to Jan van Eys, dying must be considered as a normal state in and of itself.True

Question 10

Hospice patients cannot receive both home care and inpatient care.False

Question 11

According to Leming and Dickinson, the dying person can seldom assume normal role functioning.True

Question 12

Medical schools in the United States have historically offered only limited assistance to the medical student concerning dying and death.

Question 13

The technological imperative requires that there must be cost-effectiveness in medial treatment.

Question 14

Inherently the dying patient poses a threat to the image of the "model physician."

Question 15

In the United States the dying patient within the typical acute-care hospital is a social deviant.

Question 16

The Chinese favor open and frank talk with the patient regarding his or her terminal condition.

Question 17

The Chinese believe that the family and the physician are responsible for the patient's treatment.

Question 18

75 percent of patients are hospitalized at some point during the year before they die.True

Question 19

The majority of medical schools in the United States offer a required course in thanatology for students.

Question 20

The dying patient is a deviant in the medical subculture because death poses a threat to the image of the "physician as healer."

Question 21

Which of the following contributes to the fact that physicians are ill prepared to deal with dying patients?

A)lack of personal experience with death
B)lack of training provided by medical schools
C)assumption that physicians are supposed to save lives--thus, the dying patient is a losing battle
D)all of the above

Question 22

Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding dying in the United States?

A)It is not possible to die within the medical model is held in the United States.
B)In the United States the dying patient within the typical acute-care hospital is a social deviant.
C)The dying patient is a deviant in the medical subculture because death poses a threat to the image of the "physician as healer."
D)Labeling theory focuses on the act or actor rather than on the audience observing.

Question 23

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding a dying patient?

A)75 percent of patients are hospitalized at some point during the year before they die.
B)Dying in America, is one activity that by its which by its nature, cannot be bureacratized.
C)In American society, for the patient the hospital is the preferred place to die.
D)None of the above

Question 24

Why is the terminally ill patient considered a deviant in the medical subculture?

A)because they are always fussy and difficult to handle
B)because death poses a threat to the image of the "physician as healer"
C)because death creates embarrassing and emotionally upsetting disruptions in the scientific objectivity of the medical system
D)both b and c of the above
E)none of the above

Question 25

Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding dying in the United States?

A)United States public policy relative to health care is based upon utilitarianism.
B)On average, one of every seven health care dollars was spent for services delivered to patients in the final 6 months of life.
C)More than 40 percent of all the money spent on health care throughout the world was spent in the United States.
D)None of the above

Question 26

United States public policy relative to health care is based upon utilitarianism.

Question 27

Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding medical education in the United States?

A)Medical schools in the United States have historically offered only limited assistance to the medical student concerning dying and death.
B)Recent surveys of physicians revealed that they prefer more emphasis on the topic of death and dying in medical schools.
C)The majority of medical schools in the United States offer a required course in thanatology for students.
D)The medical training of most physicians historically seems to be primarily concerned with the patient's physical state rather than social-psychological
Needs.

Question 28

Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding a dying patient?

A)Inherently the dying patient poses a threat to the image of the "model physician."
B)According to Leming and Dickinson, the dying person can seldom assume normal role functioning.
C)According to van Eys, in redefining her or his social world, the dying person becomes the servant of the physician-priest in the temple where the dying takes
Place.
D)None of the above.

Question 29

More than 40 percent of all the money spent on health care throughout the world is spent in the United States.
Multiple-Choice Questions

Question 30

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the Chinese?

A)The Chinese believe that the family and the physician are responsible for the patient's treatment.
B)The Chinese favor open and frank talk with the patient regarding his or her terminal condition.
C)Like the United States, dying in China primarily occurs in an institutional setting.
D)None of the Above