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While I personally have not much experience with medical doctors , I have taken my son to the doctors with his asthma condition on a regular basis and recently my wife whom was involved in a car accident to notice the clinic/hospital/doctor's office unique culture. Unique in the sense that it's only their(western biomedicine) way of thinking over another, there are no outside influences at least not what the AMA has approved of. The environment is sterile and organized. The practice that noticed universally with all of the doctor's visit was probably how impersonal they all were. Personally I would prefer it that way, I'm not there to make friends I just want the physician to be competent and know what he or she is doing. I often would wonder why their attitudes were like that and one hypothesis I came up with is that these physicians just don't have that kind of time to build a rapport with the patient. I once read an article that there are a shortage of doctors in the U.S. meaning that there will be lots of more patient that doctors will have to see and therefore the time they have with each patient will only be reserved for seeing what the actual problem is and finding a remedy unless it's very serious. Given what I've learned so far and read I think the medical culture should make some changes in how it handles people's bodies and health. In assigned reading the article Hispanic Journal Of Behavioral Science it stated that the "U.S. possessed the best available maternal health care in the world for the fourth consecutive year(Save the Children, 2003) yet it has missed the top 10 countries in the Mother's Index, which measures maternal health globally"(2005). That passage alone should raise immediate concerns, there's a major disconnect when a country that has the best maternal health care in the world and at the same time not even considered within the top 10 countries in the Mother's Index. Since the U.S. has missed this ranking for some time there should have been enough time to conduct a study to find the disconnect. If I were to guess, since the actual healthcare is not problem, being it the best in the world, the problem could lie within the doctor/patient dynamics. Perhaps the there isn't enough of a relationship between the two maybe it's too impersonal. If the health care providers were to have a better doctor/patient relationship the overall moral and maternal health would improve.