1.7 - Cultural Aspects Of The Doctor-Patient Relationship

Question 0

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

Answer 0

Culture

Question 1

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

Answer 1

False

Explicit AND implicit

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Culture

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Culture

Question 4

What is agency?

Answer 4

Capacity of people to make individual decisions

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

Question 5

What is the macro level of culture?

Answer 5

Systems of production, exchange etc

Question 6

What is the micro level of culture?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What is the social organization in the Philippines?

Answer 7

Immediate family
Extended kin group
Peer group

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Personalism
Familism
Paternalism

Question 9

What is personalism?

Answer 9

Placing a high value on interpersonal relationships

Question 10

What is the disadvantage of personalism?

Answer 10

Bad for goal setting

Question 11

What is the advantage of personalism?

Answer 11

Good for long term relationships

Get things done quicker

Question 12

What is familism?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What are the advantages of familism?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is paternalism?

Answer 14

Kind of concern displayed by older relatives for younger ones

Question 15

What are the themes of Filipino interpersonal relationships?

Answer 15

1. A personal touch
2. Being family
3. Paternalism as a concern

Question 16

What does a personal touch mean?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Basic orientations
Impact on managerial style
Impact on interpersonal relations

Question 18

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

Answer 18

A personal touch

Question 19

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?

Answer 19

Being Family

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Being family

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

Question 21

TRUE OR FALSE

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

Answer 21

False

Paternalism

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Objectivity
Impersonal
Organizational

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Subjective
Personal approach
Tendency to be familial

Question 24

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

Answer 24

A

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Dating

Question 26

What is the effect of a doctor's dating?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What is the effect of a doctor's diskarte?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Bureaucratic Legal Adversarial

Question 29

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

Answer 29

B.

Question 30

Based on managerial style, people tend to be_____.

Answer 30

Consultative Rely on persuasion Seek to build consensus

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Individual incentives Segmented decisions Specialization as a manager

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Group incentives Generalized decisions Generalist leadership

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Language

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Disease

Question 35

________state of discomfort or ill-being brought about by symptoms

Answer 35

Illness

Question 36

Explain the process of illness narratives and clinical categories.

Answer 36

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

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Culture Brokers

Question 38

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

Answer 38

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