Question

1. What are some of the pros and cons to the rise of medical information on the internet? How might the increased availability of private information about one’s personal medical treatment delegitimize the medical community? How might all of this be tied to the deprofessionalization of medicine? 2. Why do you think the United States is the only industrialized country to resist implementing a public/universal health care system? Since 2001, the United States government has spent nearly $7 trillion fighting the war on terror—nearly $1 billion per day. How could it be reasonably argued that if we can spend $1 billion per day for 18 years on a war, we cannot provide the most fundamental health resources for our citizens? 3. Do you think body modification is becoming more or less accepted in today’s society? What social factors might contribute to one’s decision to get liposuction or a breast augmentation? Why might these forces be critical to understanding and explaining the social trend of body modification in the United States? Is this experienced similarly across racial and gender lines? Explain.

Answer 1

1. Influence of internet has changed the entire being available within a room. When it comes medical / health sector there are advantage as well as disadvantage.

*patient doesn't require to travel with all the medical reports available, via internet the availability of these can be easy. On the other hand, publishing personal/ medical information as public will pit the patient to danger. The key policy of any healthcare is confidentiality, and this will collapse.

*the doctor patient relation will be more interactive as the health professionals has the chance to know more on patients history and become more informed. Here there can be loss of privacy when the system gets hacked.

*the reports and details will be made available as long as there is internet. Once when the internet gets cut off that can even hinder the care of patients.

These all ill effects are in relation to deprofessionalization.