Asked by Michael Whisenhunt on Apr 25, 2024

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Summarize some attitudes and beliefs that exemplify patient preferences for conventional medical approaches to treatment, and some contrasting beliefs that exemplify patient preferences for and/or openness to alternative medical approaches to treatment.​

Conventional Medical Approaches

Practices used in the standard care for patients, including pharmacology, surgery, and physical therapy.

Patient Preferences

The desires or choices of a patient regarding their healthcare, informed by their personal values and beliefs.

Alternative Medical Approaches

Treatment and healthcare practices that are not part of the standard medical care, often involving herbal, holistic, or traditional methods.

  • Investigate the dispositions and perspectives of patients regarding traditional and complementary medical methods.
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Rachael Sholaja5 days ago
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A. Beliefs reflecting conventional medical approaches to treatment:
1. If you feel pain, you look for relief in your medicine cabinet.
2. You wish pharmaceutical manufacturers would develop a medicine that helps people
to cope with stress.
1. Pain and stress are both things that are caused by factors external to the patient.
2. There are no real benefits to getting chiropractic treatments.
3. There is no way alternative treatments will ever work as well as conventional ones.
B. Beliefs reflecting alternative and behavioral approaches to treatment:
1. Some herbal treatments can relieve pain as effectively as drugs can.
2. If medical treatment did not help my pain, you would try acupuncture, hypnosis, etc.
3. Taking drugs to help deal with problems is a bad habit for too many people.
4. For pain or stress, you would prefer some alternative to medical treatments.
5. The sources of pain and stress are both interactions between patient and context.
6. Alternative treatments are generally less dangerous and have fewer side-effects than
conventional medical treatments.
The best way to approach managing pain is to combine conventional medical and alternative treatments.