Joanne HuntNov 6, 2020Ill-equipped NHSFactor #8: Ableist politics, money and abuse of powerLet’s go back to where we started (factor#1), with the biopsychosocial model. This model rather ironically arose as a means of making...
Joanne HuntNov 6, 2020Ill-equipped NHSFactor #7: Lack of medical epistemic humility (and lack of reflexivity)Epistemic humility is a form of epistemic justice that encourages an individual to be epistemically humble, that is, to recognise the...
Joanne HuntNov 2, 2020Ill-equipped NHSFactor #6: Challenges to traditional patient-practitioner roles Patients with medically unexplained or unmanageable symptoms challenge the health services and medical profession on a number of grounds....
Joanne HuntNov 2, 2020Ill-equipped NHSFactor #5: Limitations of evidence-based medicine Evidence-based medicine is a much-lauded concept in health services and allegedly draws from three pillars: best available research...