Caring for Patients – A Critique of the Medical Model Barbour Hardback

Caring for PatientsA Critique of the Medical Model\nAuthor(s): Allen Barbour\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804723893, 978-0804723893\nSynopsis\n\""See your patient as a person, not a disease.\"" This is the essential message of an experienced and compassionate physician who questions the prevailing medical model of patient care - that every illness has a physical cause that can be identified and treated medically - and who argues for the necessity of taking the psychological and social circumstances of the patient into account in the process of diagnosis and treatment.