The Patient Uniformity Myth Refers to the Tendency to

question 68

Multiple Choice

The patient uniformity myth refers to the tendency to

• A) see all study participants as homogenous.
• B) see all study participants as heterogenous.
• C) emphasize patient symptoms and uniformity.
• D) give all patients the same medications.

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Definitions:

Plucking

A glacial process where rocks and other materials are pulled away from the earth and incorporated into the moving glacier, mainly due to the freezing of water into cracks.

Abrasion

The mechanical scraping of a rock surface by friction between rocks and moving particles during their transport by wind, glacier, waves, gravity, or running water.

Snowflakes

Ice crystals that form in clouds when water vapor freezes, creating unique patterns that fall to the ground as snow.

Interlocking Crystals

A texture in igneous rocks where the crystals are so closely fitted together that they interlock, providing strength and coherence to the rock.