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Article: K-State Student Finds That Many Practicing Health Care Providers Would Benefit from Training to be Culturally Competent When Counseling Patients.
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- March 11, 2009
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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 March 2009-K-STATE: K-State Student Finds That Many Practicing Health Care Providers Would Benefit from Training to be Culturally Competent When Counseling Patients(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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MANHATTAN -- Research by a Kansas State University student shows that health care providers could benefit by learning how to adjust patient counseling for people of different cultural backgrounds.
Lindsay Ahalt, a senior in anthropology, biology, microbiology and premedicine from Jefferson, Md., thought there should be a more appropriate medical approach that focuses on treating the individual and not just the ...