Which of the following help explain why hospital care is often depersonalized?
a. Patients are often unable to talk when they enter the hospital.
b. Health care workers often derive much of their data about patients from machines, rather than by interacting directly with their patients.
c. Hospital schedules often dont reflect the natural rhythms of sick patients.
d. all of the above
e. a and a only
Question 2
Given current knowledge about prostate cancer, doctors support for prostate cancer screening seems an example of
a. depersonalization.
b. emotional detachment.
c. the technological imperative.
d. the emphasis on acute illness.
e. ethical conflicts.
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