Understanding the Scope and Practice of Behavioral Medicine in Family Medicine

Article Critique: Understanding the Scope and Practice of Behavioral Medicine in Family
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Article Critique: Understanding the Scope and Practice of Behavioral Medicine in Family
Family physicians' comprehension of and application of behavioral medicine is a largely extensive issue that was condensed by selecting a particular region and subgroup of healthcare professionals. However, the study's application of the word or status "physician" is misleading. Overall, a physician should be comparable to a doctor who has completed an internship or residency and has had extensive schooling in surgery and medicine. That is misleading because family medicine has cited several non-physicians as doctors, including counselors and dietitians. The general implication for the research's aim is that inappropriate people responded to the survey questions and the study hypothesis, leading to inaccurate findings or a level of actual irrelevance that defeats the research's objectives. In addition to the misidentified intended demographic, it is crucial for the development of holistic or alternative healthcare, caring for patients, and behavioral science's psychology component in medicine that the scope of the constraints indicated in the research paper is understood. Family physicians handle the foundation of any community, and when family illnesses are not addressed well, there is a risk of a society collapsing; hence, they must grasp behavioral medicine.
The methodology employed was Surveys, and respondents' families in Florida were given questionnaires. The research assumes that Florida is a major representation of all family physicians by choosing just one site, excluding all the statistical information that may have been acquired from other areas (Oyama et al., 2009). It might be argued that several things are varia...