Question

Dr. clayton is a psychiatrist who is seeing a new patient in his office. this patient begins to discuss the fact that he has been experiencing symptoms of depression, and as soon as it becomes clear that a mood disorder is present dr. clayton starts thinking that he will prescribe the same antidepressant that he has used with many other patients. while he is thinking this he does not listen carefully as his patient describes the recent life events that have led to the depression. dr. clayton's willingness to treat this patient like others who have suffered from similar symptoms without considering the individuality of each patient is an example of

Answer 1

The reason why Dr. Clayton has the willingness to treat his patients like others who have showed a similar symptoms but had disregard the patient’s individuality is an example of patient uniformity myth of which Dr. Clayton is showing as this is a way of considering all members to be in a single or same category and having to ignore their differences or each individuality—in which is seen in the given scenario above.