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jhjkgdfhk · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Historically, as strides were made in reducing illness, some doctors began to develop narrow specialties and to refer patients to hospitals with special facilities.

This practice created a situation in which specialized doctors and hospital personnel became highly interdependent, which caused __________. a. Americans to look to Canada to provide medical services
b. employers to begin offering health insurance
c. medical sociologists to study the health care field
d. family doctors and preventive medical practices to suffer

Question 2

Medical sociologists often point out that health care institutions themselves are the source of many problems we associate with health in the United States because __________.

a. health care never developed as a purely competitive industry or regulated public service
b. clinicians ignored the contributions of medical sociologists during the nineteenth century when the health care field developed
c. health care institutions perpetuate racial inequality
d. health care institutions have refused to treat fistulas