Joanne Hunt
Factor #8: Ableist politics, money and abuse of power
Let’s go back to where we started ( factor#1 ), with the biopsychosocial model. This model rather ironically arose as a means of making...
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Joanne Hunt
Nov 6, 2020
Factor #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...
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Joanne Hunt
Nov 2, 2020
Factor #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....
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Joanne Hunt
Nov 2, 2020
Factor #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...
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Joanne Hunt
Nov 1, 2020
Factor #4: Hierarchy of disease (and hierarchy of patients)
A rather uncomfortable truth in healthcare is that there exists a hierarchy of disease and, by extension, hierarchy of patients within...
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Joanne Hunt
Oct 31, 2020
Factor #3: Lack of integrated and holistic care provision
The term integrated care is often used to describe initiatives aiming to deliver increasingly joined-up care, which is arguably of...
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Joanne Hunt
Oct 31, 2020
Factor #2 Clash of healthcare models: acute versus chronic care
Trigger warning: death, suicide Some Long Covid patients have expressed their realisation that, unless they are considered at high risk...
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Joanne Hunt
Oct 30, 2020
Factor #1: Clash of healthcare models: biomedical versus (bio)psychosocial
Health services run most smoothly when clinicians can draw on their core training models in treating patients. In Western healthcare, the...
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Joanne Hunt
Oct 29, 2020
Why is the NHS ill-equipped to care for Long Covid patients? Lessons from MUS and chronic illness
Several weeks after Covid-19 first raised its ugly head, some people who had contracted the virus were finding that they were not getting...
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