Evaluation of the Efficacy of the Integral Approach (Therapeutic Encounter) Versus the Conventional Medical Approach (Medical Consultation) in Patients With Functional Dyspepsia

INTRODUCTION Addressing the high costs involved in new medical technology (biotechnology) is a problem that has led individuals and public health services to feel increasingly powerless.

Many authors say that not even an efficient use of resources can ensure better care and health care, a true bottomless pit.

The problem is the conceptual and ideological bases of thinking and acting of the professionals involved. The first misunderstanding is the "narrow approach" and the second is the "process of medicalization."

The curative model and the restricted approach The curative model gets this name because it is not concerned with the causes of the disease process (prevention), only with the effects (the disease). As the effects can be mitigated or even extinct, it is only temporary, because sooner or later they will return with the same format or not, in the same individual or another. It is extremely costly for individuals and for society, because the solutions are palliative. The approach is limited and so are results too.

The process of medicalization Medicalization is the ultimate expression of the distortions of thinking and consequences of the model of health care regulations. It can be understood as the increasingly high dependence on individuals and society overestimating the role that biotechnology could play, and creating a dependency in which one believes that for any problem, regardless of its severity or causal links, there will be a life-saving treatment.