Cultural Aspects of Doctor-Patient Relationship

Question 1

Set of guidelines inherited from the society; tells us how to view the world, how to experience it and how to behave

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

Capacity of people to make individual decisions

Answer 2

Agency

Question 3

High value on interpersonal relationships; placing priority upon the other taking into account the impact of what one says and does

Answer 3

Personalism

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Familism

Question 5

Concern displayed by older relatives for younger ones (malasakit)

Answer 5

Paternalism

Question 6

Differences in emotions (3)

Answer 6

Objective vs Subjective
Impersonal vs Personal
Organizational vs Familial

Question 7

Differences in managerial style (3)

Answer 7

Bureaucratic vs Consultative
Legal vs Persuasion
Adversarial vs Developing a consensus

Question 8

Impact on Interpersonal Relations

Answer 8

Individual incentive vs Group incentive
Segmented Decisions vs General Decisions
Specific Specialization vs Generalization

Question 9

Reflective not of our superiority, but of our different experience of the world

Answer 9

Jargon

Question 10

Clinical categories, symptoms from a medical practitioner’s perspective

Answer 10

Disease

Question 11

State of discomfort of being brought about by symptoms

Answer 11

Illness

Question 12

As __________ and _____________, doctors have to translate the language of two different spheres for each other speakers

Answer 12

Bridges, culture brokers

Question 13

Communication Style

Answer 13

Personalized, sensitive
Use of honorifics
Polite, respectful tone
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