Why is the terminally ill patient considered a deviant in the medical subculture?
a. They are always fussy and difficult to handle.
b. Death poses a threat to the image of the "physician as healer.".
c. Death creates embarrassing and emotionally upsetting disruptions in the scientific objectivity of the medical system.
d. Both b and c.
e. None of the above.
D
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