1.7 - Cultural Aspects Of The Doctor-Patient Relationship Flashcards

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What is transmitted to the next generation by use of symbols, language, art and ritual?

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Culture

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TRUE OR FALSE
Culture is a Set of explicit guidelines only which are inherited from a society. Culture also tells us how to view, experience and behave in the world in relation to supernatural forces, other people and natural environment

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False

Explicit AND implicit

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What are inherited “lenses” thru which individual perceives and understands the world he inhabits and learns to live within it?

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Culture

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What is the blueprint of our behavior but not absolute straight jacket that constrains our behavior because it allows for agency?

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Culture

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What is agency?

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Capacity of people to make individual decisions

- choose among what is available and can go beyond ( reason for culture change)

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What is the macro level of culture?

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Systems of production, exchange etc

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What is the micro level of culture?

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Modes of interaction, control of time, and space, attitudes, values, perception of the world etc.

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What is the social organization in the Philippines?

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Immediate family
Extended kin group
Peer group

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What frameworks are shaped by the the social structures in the Philippines?

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Personalism
Familism
Paternalism

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What is personalism?

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Placing a high value on interpersonal relationships

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What is the disadvantage of personalism?

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Bad for goal setting

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What is the advantage of personalism?

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Good for long term relationships

Get things done quicker

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What is familism?

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Way of relating to others not necessarily related to us using models derived from family patterns

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What are the advantages of familism?

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Used to related to other people by using family terminology
Relationsl aspects are emphasized
Appease person and make them more likely to listen to you

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What is paternalism?

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Kind of concern displayed by older relatives for younger ones

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What are the themes of Filipino interpersonal relationships?

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  1. A personal touch
  2. Being family
  3. Paternalism as a concern
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What does a personal touch mean?

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Focus on personalist theme prevalent in FIlipino culture and how this can be tapped for enhancing doctor-patient relationships

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Application of the personalistic approach involves recognizing possible differences in__________(3 things)_______.

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Basic orientations
Impact on managerial style
Impact on interpersonal relations

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The sense of kapwa is found in what theme of Filipino interpersonal relationships?

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A personal touch

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A compassionate concern for the patient’s well-being takes on another dimension when taking into account the familistic orientation in Filipino culture.
Which Filipino interpersonal relationship theme is this?

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Being Family

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In which Filipino interpersonal relationship theme do Patients often draw the doctor into ritual kinshio relationships?
Give examples.

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Being family

Doctors become quasi-relatives, ninong of patient’s children etc.

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TRUE OR FALSE

A doctor treating the patient with concern of an older relative for a younger one is familism.

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False

Paternalism

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Based on orientation, our academic training often emphasizes the following: ______.

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Objectivity
Impersonal
Organizational

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Based on basic orientation, patients would rather have doctors who are ________.

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Subjective
Personal approach
Tendency to be familial

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______ is the priority of the institution over an individual.
A. Organizational
B. Impersonal
C. Legal

A

A

25
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Dating or Diskarte: a filipino term referring to impressions made of another person, an event or an idea.

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Dating

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What is the effect of a doctor’s dating?

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Can affect communication process: can easily facilitate or hinder patient-doctor relationship

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What is the effect of a doctor’s diskarte?

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Discern illness and quickly address it (manage cultural encounter and interweave with medical knowledge)

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Based on the managerial style, the institutional setting can end up being ______.

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Bureaucratic
Legal
Adversarial

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Which pertains to standards that conform to rules?
A. Bureaucratic
B. Legal
C. Rely on persuasion

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B.

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Based on managerial style, people tend to be_____.

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Consultative
Rely on persuasion
Seek to build consensus

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Based on interpersonal relations, a corporate setting has a tendency towards______.

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Individual incentives
Segmented decisions
Specialization as a manager

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Based on interpersonal relations, a less structure setting has emphases on____.

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Group incentives
Generalized decisions
Generalist leadership

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______ is one of the issues that shapes the doctor-patient relationship.

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Language

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______ clinical categories, symptoms from medical practitioner’s perspective.

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Disease

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________state of discomfort or ill-being brought about by symptoms

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Illness

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Explain the process of illness narratives and clinical categories.

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People come to clinice with illness and experiences of ill-being then doctors listen and extract details necessary to construct applicable disease category.

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Doctors are_________ between world of clinic and laboratory and the patient’s world.

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Culture Brokers

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A culturally-based model of relationship includes modifying one’s communicatin style accordingly which includes:_______.

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Interviews in a sensitive, personalized manner
Pay attention to use of honorifics
Seek to adapt a polite and respectful tone
Act as a guide not a boss