TY - JOUR
KW - Bioethicist
KW - Bioethics
KW - Biomedical model
KW - Biopsychosocial model
AU - C. R. Sotomayor
AU - C. M. Gallagher
A1 - 
AB - The biopsychosocial model is characterized by the systematic consideration of biological, psychological, and social factors and their complex interactions in understanding health, illness, and health care delivery. This model opposes the biomedical model, which is the foundation of most current clinical practice. In the biomedical model, quest for evidence based medicine, the patient is reduced to molecules, genes, organelles, systems, diseases, etc. This reduction has brought great advances in medicine, but it lacks a holistic view of the person. To solve the problem, we propose an early team based approach where the primary care physician leads a group of people that can help her/him address the psychosocial issues while she/he attends to the biomedical issues. This article addresses one case where the clinical ethicist facilitating a team based biopsychosocial model for the care of a patient worked as a bridge between the primary team, the critical care team, and the psychosocial team to advance the argument that good communication among the groups can lead to a true biopsychosocial model where the collaboration of the social worker, psychologist, chaplain, ethicist and the different medical teams can improve the overall patient experience.
BT - HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 1
CY - Netherlands
DO - 10.1007/s10730-018-9358-3
IS - 1
JF - HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues
N2 - The biopsychosocial model is characterized by the systematic consideration of biological, psychological, and social factors and their complex interactions in understanding health, illness, and health care delivery. This model opposes the biomedical model, which is the foundation of most current clinical practice. In the biomedical model, quest for evidence based medicine, the patient is reduced to molecules, genes, organelles, systems, diseases, etc. This reduction has brought great advances in medicine, but it lacks a holistic view of the person. To solve the problem, we propose an early team based approach where the primary care physician leads a group of people that can help her/him address the psychosocial issues while she/he attends to the biomedical issues. This article addresses one case where the clinical ethicist facilitating a team based biopsychosocial model for the care of a patient worked as a bridge between the primary team, the critical care team, and the psychosocial team to advance the argument that good communication among the groups can lead to a true biopsychosocial model where the collaboration of the social worker, psychologist, chaplain, ethicist and the different medical teams can improve the overall patient experience.
PP - Netherlands
PY - 2019
SN - 1572-8498; 0956-2737
SP - 75
EP - 83
EP - 
T1 - The Team Based Biopsychosocial Model: Having a Clinical Ethicist as a Facilitator and a Bridge Between Teams
T2 - HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues
TI - The Team Based Biopsychosocial Model: Having a Clinical Ethicist as a Facilitator and a Bridge Between Teams
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 30074121
U3 - 10.1007/s10730-018-9358-3
VL - 31
VO - 1572-8498; 0956-2737
Y1 - 2019
ER -