The Frankenstein consultation model

I’ve created a monster! I’ve always found it heartening that much of the essential skills and knowledge of our discipline of general practice centre on defining and describing our key tool — the consultation. Having a varied set of models of the consultation was not just an interesting academic exercise, but was useful in seeing the many patients with problems not easily defined within a narrow biomedical window. These models were like having various maps of a country. In the same way I might use different maps to tell me about the terrain I found myself in — here were the roads I could take, here are the geological rock formations we walk on, here are the income gradients — models of …