SOCI201 Lecture 12: Week 12 Notes
4 Sep 2018
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Doctors- more power than any other professionals. Offer something everyone wants- health and longevity. Individualized objectivity- very intimate and personal with you but also very objective and technical. Doctors create an excess demand for their services (set own pay rates, etc) Medicalization- process by which problems or issues not traditionally seen as medical come to be framed as such. Doctors" power was not always the case. Doctor"s authority began to decline in 1990s due to the fact that market forces had infiltrated medicine (rising cost of healthcare) Sick role- two rights and two obligations. Seek competent help and comply with his or her condition doctor"s" orders. Social construction of illness- definitions of what is an illness changes over time. Fee for service model- problem because doctor"s have the incentive to overtreat and continue to see you. Hmos emerged- attempt to hold down costs by paying doctors a salary based on the number of patients they take on.
