Open AccessHolistic model as a challenge for the medical profession
Author(s) -
Nina Putała
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
argument
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2084-1043
pISSN - 2083-6635
DOI - 10.24917/20841043.10.1.10
Subject(s) - autonomy , ignorance , scope (computer science) , perception , relation (database) , philosophy of medicine , postmodernism , psychology , medicine , epistemology , law , political science , alternative medicine , computer science , philosophy , pathology , database , neuroscience , programming language
The article presents a doctor–patient relationship model based on the assumptions of a holistic approach to the patient. The author draws attention to selected patients’ needs, ones taken into account in this model. These are the right to autonomy and an individualised approach to the patient. These issues, considered in relation to philosophy, show a conflict between patients’ values and aspirations and doctors’ values and their experience. Nowadays, patients’ needs are protected by consumer rights as well as being strengthened by postmodern philosophy, which shapes society’s awareness of various definitions of health and underlines the right of the individual to self‐determination. This situation creates an incredible challenge for doctors because attempts to assist is, according to medical knowledge, associated with an inevitable collision with the subjective perception of a patient’s health. Because of this issue, the author considers it necessary to enquire about the needs and aspirations of not so much patients as doctors themselves. It is assumed that the definition of what is currently important for this group determines the scope of any possible admission or intentional ignorance of patients’ needs.