Abstract
Is it possible to bridge the Biopsychosocial and Biomedical models?
Highlights
It is an honor to be invited to offer a perspective on our field for the official journal of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine
The biomedical, organ-based perspective focuses on disease mechanisms and assumes that the psychological and social are not essential to understanding and treating patients, humanism in patient care is endorsed. Bridging these perspectives is important because the biomedical is the predominant model adopted by those who decide how to allocate health care dollars in the United States and many other countries
This in turn determines what clinical care is provided at the bedside
Summary
To some of us it is obvious that biological, psychological and social factors are in reality integrated and that biopsychosocial medicine seeks to elucidate this reality. The biomedical, organ-based perspective focuses on disease mechanisms and assumes that the psychological and social are not essential to understanding and treating patients, humanism in patient care is endorsed. We need to find ways to explain the biopsychosocial model in biomedical terms, i.e. specific quantifiable mechanisms that demonstrate a causal chain of events.
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