Stress and Role of Practitioner in Healthcare | Case Study

Running head: STRESS AND ROLE OF PATIENT AND PRACTITONER IN HEALTHCARE
STRESS AND ROLE OF PATIENT AND PRACTITIONER IN HEALTHCARE
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Case study 1
The case study refers to the effects of stress on the young woman who was forced to
believe that she was suffering from heart attack when she was having panic attacks due to a lot of
stress. She always felt that she was in danger however, when she went to the hospital for
treatment she was told to breathe in deeply as she was just hyperventilating. There were no
physical findings of her illness when the cardiologist checked her. On her referral to a
psychologist it was found that she had problems with handling of stress that affected her
emotionally and physically too. In the case study, it can be seen that the two models of health are
highlighted. One is the biomedical model of health while the other is the bio-psycho-social
model of health (Taylor 2015). The biomedical model of health focuses on the biological factors
that stress that the health is affected by genes and the hereditary factors. The biological makeup
of the individual determines the health of the individual (Montero-Marin et al. 2014). The young
woman here disregarded her problems of her emotional and psychological well-being and
thought purely in terms of physical terms. Therefore, whenever she got anxious or had panic
attacks she thought that she was having a heart attack and rushed to the hospital for treatment.
The healthcare practitioner tried to convince her that she was not having a cardiac arrest
however; she refused to believe the doctor and went to a cardiologist. This shows that she was
completely dependent on the medical aspect of her health. The cardiologist however referred her
to the psychologist. Here it can be said that the cardiologist took into account her mental
problems and did not simply believe in the biological factors of her health (Tan and Yip 2018).
After getting the inputs from her psychologist, she understood that she was under a lot of stress
and that she was not having a heart attack but it was her emotional breakdown that led her to
have panic attacks.

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The bio-psycho-social model of health states that health is an interaction of the
biological, psychological and social factors. The psychological and the social environment of the
person is as important as the biological factors in determining the health of the individual
(Lehman, David and Gruber 2017). The lifestyle and the social support that the person gets is
important in determining the health of the person. The role of the health professionals is to
promote health and prevent diseases. In keeping tune with the bio-psycho-social model of health,
it is important that both the patient and the healthcare practitioner give equal importance to the
psychological and the social factors too along with the biological factors (Van Steenbeek et al.
2016). Here the woman was getting tremendous pressure from her boyfriend and her mother and
the work pressure also led to her suffering from burnout. She ignored her mental health and
failed to realize that stress was destroying her life. The role of both the patients and the health
practitioner is important in realizing that the body can be kept healthy in the true sense only
when all the biological, psychological and social factors are take into account.
Case study 2
Answer 1:
According to the case study, Jamal is 69 years old who had a history of type 2 diabetes. He was
advised to lose weight however; he did not take any further action. Since he had a feeling of
tiredness constantly, he went to his local doctor who prescribed him medication for diabetes.
However, he stopped taking the medicine because he felt dizzy and agitated by it. In the case
study, it is further reported that Jamal had taken all sorts of supplements and his wife encouraged
him to treat his problem by taking all kinds of supplements to lose weight. In a short span of 6
months, he tried all kinds of herbal medicine and nutritional supplements to reduce blood sugar.
He stopped taking them too as they did not show any positive results. On being referred to