class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # BSOC/STS 2051 Discussion Section ## Week 3, Disc 2 ### Xuewen Yan ### 2021-09-10 --- # Housekeeping Check in now: [Attendance sheet](https://forms.gle/fZx6FYcJSp6Tte2X9) Section slides: [https://rpubs.com/xwueyan](https://rpubs.com/xwueyan) Office hour time: need further coordination --- # Last week reading --- # Discussion post format - About 100 words or more - Identify a point/issue from a reading/several readings - Pose your question related to the point --- # Discussion post summary 1. Should patients' request for care professionals of particular characteristics (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender) be accommodated? (Lane-Fall, 2014) - Preference vs avoidance? - What specific preference? (e.g., White vs Asian?) - Emergency situations? (e.g., only one on-call doctor) --- # Discussion post summary 1. Should patients' request for care professionals of particular characteristics (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender) be accommodated? (Lane-Fall, 2014) - Preference vs avoidance? - What specific preference? (e.g., White vs Asian?) - Emergency situations? (e.g., only one on-call doctor) 2. How realistic is it to mediate between HCP's and patients during charged doctor-patient situations? What's the ethical role for HCP, pt, and mediator here? (Fiester 2015) --- # Discussion post summary 1. Should patients' request for care professionals of particular characteristics (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender) be accommodated? (Lane-Fall, 2014) - Preference vs avoidance? - What specific preference? (e.g., White vs Asian?) - Emergency situations? (e.g., only one on-call doctor) 2. How realistic is it to mediate between HCP's and patients during charged doctor-patient situations? What's the ethical role for HCP, pt, and mediator here? (Fiester 2015) 3. What are the principles and tips for handling "difficult patients"? e.g., Patients' or patients' loved one's refusal of care? (Halpern 2007) --- # Case discussion: Group activity [Google doc collaboration](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p2jJl-pCKa38JWsEh__BK7VSO_XvPoJMfMB3FhhqesU/edit?usp=sharing) 1. “Difficult” patient versus “difficult” encounter? 2. Do the HCPs have an ethical duty to treat this patient? 3. How might you try to approach this situation?