A Patient Presents with a Self-Diagnosed Condition and Believes She

question 27

Multiple Choice

A patient presents with a self-diagnosed condition and believes she needs a medication she has seen on television.Which response to this patient would be most inappropriate?

• A)Explaining the side effects of the requested drug
• B)Explaining the appropriateness of the requested drug
• C)Explaining the risks and benefits of the requested drug
• D)Prescribing the medication to the patient without further discussion,as this is what she wants

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Definitions:

Aptitude Tests

Standardized tests designed to measure an individual's potential to acquire skills or knowledge, commonly used in educational and professional settings.

General Ability

A person's overall capability to perform a wide variety of tasks, often associated with cognitive functions like reasoning, problem-solving, and understanding.

Scale Development

The process of designing, testing, and validating a scale or instrument for measurement, typically of attitudes, attributes, or behaviors.

Thurstone Scales

A psychometric scale developed by L. L. Thurstone, used to measure attitudes by asking respondents to agree or disagree with a series of statements, each weighted according to their position on an agree-disagree continuum.