Practice question · Multiple choice
A GP asks a patient with chest pain: "What's going on at home?" Under the biomedical model that question is a waste of the appointment. Under the biopsychosocial model, what is it?
Hints
- Ask what the answer could change. If 'my mother died in March' altered the treatment plan, the question was diagnostic.
- The model's claim is that the three domains interact: so a social fact is upstream of a biological one.
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D. A diagnostic question, since those are causes and not context
Why
The model earns its keep by changing what counts as data. If chronic stress raises cortisol and cortisol is doing some of the work, then 'what's going on at home?' is a question about the pathology, not around it. That is why the model rewrote the consultation, not just the textbook.
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