What is the usual approach to care for individuals who practice folk medicine?
a. Fragmented
b. Impersonal
c. Disjointed
d. Personalized
D
Folk medicine is highly personalized; the descriptors fragmented, impersonal, and disjointed more often are associated with the Western medicine approach to health care.
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