[Medicalization of life at the GP level: Where are we headed to?].
The power of medicine has lately enhanced the idea of medicalizing any aspects of life that can be perceived as medical problems. Medicine sometimes creates false needs and there is nowadays an increasing number of situations are medicalized with the pretext of treating fake diseases such as spring fatigue, shyness o natural biological processes like menopause. Despite the better life conditions, we now attend more people that complain about discomfort that may have more to do with «feeling sick» than with authentic disease. There is an endless list: sadness, hyperactive children, anorexia, bulimia, vigorexia or problematic teenagers, amongst others. In this article we revise some interventions that, contribute to promote these situations also from the own doctor's office. Everyday adversity acquires today the status of disease, hence the remarkable increase in these consultations in the diverse sanitary services.
Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria, Centro de Saúde Perillo, Servicio Galego de Saúde, A Coruña, España; Miembro del GdT de Salud Mental de Semfyc, España. Electronic address: maria.jesus.cerecedo.perez@sergas.es.
M Jesús
MJ
Cerecedo Pérez
Margarita
M
Tovar Bobo
Aurora
A
Rozadilla Arias
D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D062528:Medicalization / Q000639:trends*
Disease labeling; Etiquetas de enfermedad; Fake disease; Iatrogenesis; Iatrogenia sanitaria; Invención de enfermedades; Medicalización; Medicalization