Author Question: Why is it important for the patient not to feel as if his or her type of insurance or ability to pay ... (Read 95 times)

ghost! · **on:** Jun 25, 2018

Why is it important for the patient not to feel as if his or her type of insurance or ability to pay is the most important item of information collected?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The most accurate temperature reading for an infant is:

A) oral. B) axillary. C) tympanic. D) rectal.

mk6555 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

The patient should be made to feel as if he or she is important to the medical office staff. When patients believe that the medical staff value the type of insurance or ability to pay, patients may feel that the staff are impersonal or that the primary concern is money, rather than the patients.

Answer to Question 2

D