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Holistic care
Holistic care looks at the whole person as well as the illness they have.
Summary
- It covers a patient's emotional, social and spiritual needs alongside the physical ones.
- The biopsychosocial model, set out by George Engel in 1977, is the idea behind it.
- A GP who asks about housing, work and mood as well as symptoms is practising it.
- Social prescribing puts it to work by linking patients to local activities and support.
Interview questions
- What does holistic care mean?
- A patient keeps returning with symptoms that tests cannot explain. What else would you want to know?
- Why might loneliness be a medical problem?
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