Why Is the Terminally Ill Patient Considered a Deviant in the Medical

question 26

Multiple Choice

Why is the terminally ill patient considered a deviant in the medical subculture?

• A)They are always fussy and difficult to handle.
• B)Death poses a threat to the image of the "physician as healer."
• C)Death creates embarrassing and emotionally upsetting disruptions in the scientific objectivity of the medical system.
• D)Both b and c.

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