What Is the Most Striking Difference Between a Physician's Approach

question 57

Multiple Choice

What is the most striking difference between a physician's approach to a sick patient and a medical anthropologist's perspective?

• A) physicians will focus on the clinical processes that explain the disease, while medical anthropologists will focus only on the patient's symptoms
• B) doctors will not be concerned with the patient's feelings since as physicians they know what is happening, while the medical anthropologist will be concerned with the patient's anxiety and fear during treatment
• C) doctors will focus on the clinical processes that explain the disease, while medical anthropologists will want to look at the illness from all perspectives
• D) all of the above

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