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Which of the following statements is Answer: False regarding medical education in the United States?
 
  a. Medical schools have historically offered only limited assistance to the medical student concerning dying and death.
  b. Recent surveys of physicians revealed that they prefer more emphasis on the topic of death and dying in medical schools.
  c. The majority of medical schools offer a required course in thanatology for students.
  d. The medical training of most physicians historically seems to be primarily concerned with the patient's physical state rather than with social-psychological needs.

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Which of the following statements is Answer: True regarding a dying patient?
 
  a. Seventy-five percent of patients are hospitalized at some point during the year before they die.
  b. Dying in America is one activity that by its nature cannot be bureaucratized.
  c. In American society, for the patient the hospital is the preferred place to die.
  d. None of the above.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

A




clippers!

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


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Gracias!

 

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