How do academic physicians honestly feel about the biopsychosocial model of illness?

[FigmundSreud]

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[LebronManning]

I doubt they know what it is lol.

 

[LizzyM]

Well, if they don't, they are likely to learn more about it soon. BMJ (British Medical Journal) just published a paper about it in February.

BMJ: 324 (7353)
BMJ 2018; 324 doi: (Published 05 February 2018)Cite this as: BMJ 2018;324:1533

 

[Lucca]

Ppl have been talking about this since the 60s/70s and its an official category of concepts on the new McAT. Bout as mainstream as it gets

 

[Goro]

DOs have been talking about this for, oh, maybe 100 years.

 

[Oso]

Very specialty dependent ...

A family physician or internist will have more interest in and perhaps make more use of the model than, say, a hand surgeon or anesthesiologist.

 

[AtlasSonOfIapetus]

Do they think it is too trivial, or think that it is a worthwhile perspective?

Why do you ask?

 

[getdown]

Even if we may not know this concept exactly by name, the overall sentiment around practicing physicians is that the individual aspects of this concept does make a difference. Some patients just fare better because they have better genes (think about the guy who's been smoking for his entire life and doesn't have lung cancer vs the healthy vegan with metastatic lung cancer). It's also widely accepted that patients who are depressed have poorer outcomes in terms of recovering from illness. Finally, having a strong social network is known to help with the recovery process. One of the big things they check before allowing patients to get organ transplants is that there's a strong social network to help the patient recover.

 

[Tenk]

I think that meth can destroy all three of those.