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Practice Commentary

Milton H. Seifert, Jr, MD

Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(5):464.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Anxiety and stress are ubiquitous and mostly indefinable in everyday terms. However, all practitioners have experienced the power of these forces on the clinical aspects of numerous medical problems, including control of glucose levels in diabetics. Undoubtedly, these phenomena are complex, and perhaps 100 years from now we will know the underlying science of stress and anxiety. Currently, clinicians can use the biomedical model to collect observational data, such as the measurement of glycohemoglobin levels, to sort out errors in monitoring and reporting.

This is also an opportunity to apply the biopsychosocial model to better understand the science of the relational process, ie, the other science of thoughts, feelings, and language, which can affect our clinical responses and outcomes of care. Engel1 would remind us that the observational and relational processes are complementary, supplementary, and interdependent in operation. Understanding both is necessary to become more fully scientific in the care . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]


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