Medical model

Medical model is a term in healthcare that is used to refer to the set of procedures in which all doctors are trained. This includes medical jargon, diagnosis of symptoms, and drugs and surgery used to treat illness. It is a term used in a manner similar to the way in which the "business model" is used to describe the business operations.

Overview

The medical model is an approach to pathology that focuses on the use of pharmacotherapy and surgery to treat or suppress symptoms and conditions. The medical model is thus focused primarily on the physical and biological aspects of specific diseases and conditions.

Criticism

Critics of the medical model argue that the approach is too narrow and does not take into account the role of social and psychological factors in health and illness. They argue that the medical model reduces health to a purely physical phenomenon and ignores the role of the individual's subjective experience.

See also

• Biopsychosocial model
• Healthcare model
• Pathology
• Pharmacotherapy
• Surgery

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