SOCIOL 140
Negotiating Medical Care: Physician-Patient Conversations
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Overview of how physician-patient interaction influences kinds of treatment patients receive. Focus on routine primary care medical visits and study of how some of our most significant health-care epidemics are affected by communication that takes place in these everyday medical visits. Topics include how communication between clinicians and patients has changed over years, normative structure of medical visit, and how communication adds to series of public health problems currently faced. Students learn how to analyze actual interactions between physicians and patients with hands-on exercises to give them tools to examine these conversations. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2024 - Do not take this class, professor Stiver's is awful. It is a bummer because I actually love the content of this class and it is very interesting, but Professor Stiver's ruins it. She assigns an insane amount of reading. She has no empathy for her student's needs, and honestly is rude. She purposefully makes the exam questions to trick you. She is not accommodating at all. And we had a mini paper due every 2 weeks and she had the TAs grade insanely harshly. It was an opinion pieces and we then got docked points for our opinions. Do not take this class. Professor Stiver's is the worst professor I have ever had at ucla.
Winter 2024 - Do not take this class, professor Stiver's is awful. It is a bummer because I actually love the content of this class and it is very interesting, but Professor Stiver's ruins it. She assigns an insane amount of reading. She has no empathy for her student's needs, and honestly is rude. She purposefully makes the exam questions to trick you. She is not accommodating at all. And we had a mini paper due every 2 weeks and she had the TAs grade insanely harshly. It was an opinion pieces and we then got docked points for our opinions. Do not take this class. Professor Stiver's is the worst professor I have ever had at ucla.
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