Ways That Physicians Respond Differently to Female and Male Patients

question 5

Multiple Choice

Ways that physicians respond differently to female and male patients include:

• A) the assumption that women's pain more than men's has an emotional basis.
• B) treating women's pain but dismissing men's.
• C) prescribing tranquilizers for women more than men.
• D) a and c

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Definitions:

Psychological Payoffs

The benefits or rewards that individuals receive from their behaviors or beliefs, which can serve to reinforce these actions or views.

Bystander Effect

The phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present.

Prosocial Behavior

Social behaviors that benefit other people or society as a whole, such as helping, sharing, donating, co-operating, and volunteering.

Altruism

The principle or practice of showing concern for the well-being of others, even at a personal cost.