Managing In The Healthcare Industry: A Cultural Analysis

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It is sad to see that providers withhold treatments based on culture, thank you for giving insight into this. As we know from reading our course eBook, The Essentials of Managing in the Healthcare Industry (2013), people of certain population have a higher or bigger difference of diseases and/or death compared to others of a different race or culture that is the norm. This is a good enough reason to make sure our health care organizations are fluent in the different cultures here in the United States so that they can receive better care and care that is ethical, regardless of their race or

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