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13 In each of the following situations, indicate whether the physician's discriminatory action is taste-based or statistical. a An American physician detests interacting with French people, so she always gives French patients quicker examinations than she gives Americans. A physician believes that Hispanic patients are less likely to follow through with an expensive therapeutic regimen that leads to major side effects, so he never prescribes it for them. A surgeon has heard that it is very difticult for black patients to find bi matches on the kidney donor waitlist. As a result, he is more aggressive in trying to save a black patient's kidneys than a white patient's kidneys. A hospitalist believes that the nurses at her hospital routinely discriminate against Asian patients due to subconscious racism. She always spends a little more time ensuring that her Asian patients are receiving the right medication. b c d

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a) If a doctor is giving treatment based on his taste and preferences, it is taste based because there are no statistics involved.

b) If physician believes hispanic patients not likely follow expensive trreatments, this is statistical because through his observations he came through tests based on statistics. This is not according to him there is observation and statistics done.

c) Surgean finds it is difficult for patients bio-compatible for kidneys, this is statistical because it is based on the observation and statitistics.

d) Nurses discriminates against patients is taste based, not statistical because it is based onbthe nurses taste and preference that she likes. It cannot be measured.