Health Care Systems Flashcards
What are the limits of a biomedical epistemology?
Medically unexplained symptoms
Define contested illness
An illness that is questioned or doubtful in the medical community
Explain what makes an illness a contested illness
Lack of scientific evidence or being unsure about the legitimacy of the illness
Define medically unexplained symptoms
When the person you are seeing, as well as you think there’s something wrong with you but no one can figure out what’s actually wrong with you because there is no physical change to see
Explain what it means by someone working as a GP has about 30% of medically unexplained illnesses a week
They treat people but they don’t actually know why
How are people commonly treated when they have medically unexplained symptoms?
They a re treated quite negatively by people around them and are often asked - Well what’s actually wrong with you?
What are the following examples of:
Stomach problems
Chest pain
Head aches
Tiredness
Medically unexplained symptoms
What to doctors tend to do in some cases of medically unexplained symptoms?
Still recognise that patient but try and press them towards physiological testing and think that its all in their head
Define the collaborative humanistic style of care
It appreciates the person and their illnesses within the wholeness of their social situation and tries to see the bigger picture
Eg
Family life
Cultural views
What does the collaborative humanistic style of care involve?
Talking to people and recognising their stories
What kind of approach does the collaborative humanistic style of care involve?
Narrative approaches
