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Question 1). Dr. Bob, a general practitioner, has a patient named Debbie who is an attractive, healthy 25-year-old woman who thinks that her nose is too crooked and too large for her face. She has no breathing abnormalities that need to be corrected. She asks Dr. Bob for a referral to a plastic surgeon to "fix it and make it look normal." Dr. Phil, another general practitioner, has a patient named Diane, a five-year-old deaf girl, who has recently begun expressing the desire to hear and to communicate with her hearing friends. Her mother, Susan, a deaf woman who is proud of her deaf heritage and community, has reservations about the cochlear implant that this would require, and is generally uncertain as to how to proceed. Susan asks Dr. Phil for advice. Imagine that you were advising both Dr. Bob and Dr. Phil. What would you tell them to say to their patients, and why?

In answering this question, please address the following two issues:

a. Are there significant differences between the two cases, and if so, what are they, and why are they significant?

b. What is the role that the notion of "normalcy" plays in your answer, and which