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U K Creditor

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PubMed1982

Curriculum choices of premedical students.

The authors examined the curricular choices of premedical students to discover the differences from the choices of other students in the sciences and liberal arts. Premedical students took more science courses and took conscience courses in which they were more likely to get a higher grade than would other students. The authors have confirmed that premedical students' preparation for medical school is not broad-based and that course selection appears to be made on the basis of competition for entry into medical school.

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PubMed1980

Minor ailments and illness behavior among physicians.

This study examined the illness behavior of a sample (n = 375) of physicians in regard to the treatment of their own minor ailments. The symptoms for each of 13 minor ailments were clearly worded to describe a common ailment which in the normal course of events should disappear if left untreated. For 3 of the ailments, however, there was a high frequency of physician-dependent action; 4 other ailments showed a moderate frequency of physician-dependent action. Assuming that physicians are role models for illness behavior, in the sense that they have the authority to define what illness "is" and that they will then do what they have think "best," this sample of physicians is implicitly demonstrating what lay persons should do. These data suggest that the normative expectation to seek professional assistance (a medical solution) is reinforced by physicians through their own behavior.

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