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#780 Deborah Carr: Obesity, Disability, Healthcare, and Aging in America

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The Role of Sociologists in Medicine

Sociologists can also help medicine and health care right in many ways. We have to recognize that people are not always completely rational actors. If someone doesn't have access to a gym telling them to lift weights probably isn't going to happenright. Tailoring the medical recommendations to where someone is both structurally economically in terms of motivation and in terms of what their day looks like even all of these social factors really need to be taken into consideration with any kind of health care providers making a recommendation to their patient.

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