Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Medical model

By the by, I am not particularly fond of the Medical Model, at least not that model described by British GP Dr. David Zigmond in a still quite relevant 1976 article:

"'...the Medical Model assumes a simple mechanical view of illness and the body it occurs in. The illness is thus seen simply as a fault in the machine. Although lip-service may be paid to interfering concepts of the mind, the family and the environment, these are uncomfortable bedfellows of the Medical Model and the machine-body continues to be regarded as something that functions autonomously: a hermetic system. Diagnoses therefore tend to be formulated in terms of structural or functional failures of the machine alone. It follows that because treatment methods derive from diagnostic concepts, then medical treatment is likely to be equally mechanistic and exclusive of non-material or psychological factors. The Medical Model is thus most comfortably suited to subjects such as surgery where the diagnosis and treatment are extremely circumscribed and structural.'" However, as Dr. Zigmond articulates in that article, and as many other physicians, psychologists, historians, health policy analysts, and others have described, alternative models exist that incorporate principles and practices of medical practice with social, cultural, systemic, psychological, interpersonal, developmental, and other perspectives. In fact, most psychiatrists I know do not subscribe to a rigidly reductionistic, mechanical view of human beings or their problems. If this article provided a cogent review of such integrative models, I would sing its praises.  Mark D Worthen PsyD  22:15, 1 January 2014 (UTC)