Cultural Aspects of the Doctor Patient Relationship Flashcards
A set of implicit and explicit guidelines that individuals inherit as members of a particular society and that tells them how to interact with the world.
Culture
Culture guidelines that are specific rules, laws and regulations
Explicit Guidelines
Cultural guidelines that we know are rules but are never written down
Implicit rules
Provides a way of transmitting guidelines to the next generation by use of symbols, language, art and ritual
culture
“Culture can be seen as an inherited lens through which the individual perceives and understands the world that he inhabits and learns how to live within it
Helman
Three levels where we understand social structure
Nuclear (Pamilya)
Kinship (Angkan)
Peer group
The description, act of writing and describing people’s communities
Ethnography
Placing high value on interpersonal relationships
Personalism
A way of relating to others not necessarily related to us using models of relationship derived from family patterns
Familism
The kind of concern displayed by older relatives for younger ones (malasakit)
Filipino style paternalism
Placing priority upon the other, taking into account the impact of what one says and does upon the other
personalism
outgrowth of a sense of kapwa or the recognition that at some level we are connected in different ways
Personalism
Being formal and acting according to specific rules
Bureaucratic
Standards have to conform to rules
legal
When rules are broken there is a tendency to confront the culprit
Adversarial