The ensuing development of a more mechanistic, detached practice, with the perception of an attendant loss of patient-focused care, known as the medical model of health, led to criticisms that medicine was neglecting a holistic model.

随之而来的一种更为机械化，超脱的实践的发展，以及随之而来的失去以患者为中心的护理（被称为健康医学模型）的观念，导致关于医学忽视了整体模型的批判。