Which of the following is NOT a negative outcome caused by a power differential between two groups?
A. A medical resident chooses to quit their program because of excessive verbal abuse from one of the doctors they work for.
B. A hospital refuses to perform a required (but not lifesaving) surgery on an uninsured patient until the patient is able to pay for the first half of the procedure in full.
C. An overweight patient dies from a rare cancer because her doctor assumed that her difficulty breathing was a symptom of her obesity and refused to run tests despite the patient’s requests to do so.
D. A doctor has had insufficient sleep due to his schedule at the hospital and accidentally gives a patient two medications that end up causing a rare but life threatening interaction, leaving the patient gravely ill.
E. All of these are negative outcomes caused by power differentials.
Answer: D
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