The conflict approach emphasizes inequality in the quality of health and of health-care delivery. Which of the following examples illustrate conflict theory's criticism?
1) The definition of hyperactivity, as a medical problem, was very lucrative for physicians and for the company that developed Ritalin, and it also obscured the possible roots of their behavior in inadequate parenting, stultifying schools, or even gender socialization, as most hyperactive kids are boys.
2) Physicians may honestly feel that medical alternatives are inadequate, ineffective, or even dangerous, but they also recognize that the use of these alternatives is financially harmful to their own practices.
3) Physicians treat all their patients equally regardless of the patients' race/ethnicity or social class.

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